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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Sometimes, we all laugh for a joke which is not funny and cry for a love not meant to be.
Tom MetcafeTom Metcafe Whenever I’m sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever!
Justin BieberJustin Bieber The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
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