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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

George Orwell

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
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
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
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Liberty One Liner Power Worship
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
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
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
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
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
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
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
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
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable

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