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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
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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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle

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