The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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