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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

George Orwell

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
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
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELL

Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
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
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
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
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

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