Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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