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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
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
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
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

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