If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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