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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.

George Orwell

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
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
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable

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