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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

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
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
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
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
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
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

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