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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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
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
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
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
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
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
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
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
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
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
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence 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
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
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
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell

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