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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth

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