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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

George Orwell

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
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.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
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
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
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
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
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
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Beauty One Liner Positive Share
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
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

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