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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

George Orwell

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
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 Nature Quite Time Want
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
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
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 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
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

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