The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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