The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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