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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
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
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
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
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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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing

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