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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

George Orwell

News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
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
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
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
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
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
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
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 Nature Quite Time Want

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