Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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