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

George Orwell

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
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
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
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel

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