To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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