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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

George 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.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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 Quite Time
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
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

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