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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

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
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
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
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
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
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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Against Defense Politics Represent War
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

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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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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