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George Orwell Quote - On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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 real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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