Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The object of power is power.
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