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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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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Goodness Human Quite Time
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
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
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
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest

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