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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

George Orwell

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 Nature Quite Time Want
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
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
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
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
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
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object

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