Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The object of power is power.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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