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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
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
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
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start

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