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George Orwell

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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
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
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
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
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
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

Four legs good, two legs bad.

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