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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL

Always Invincible Moments Win
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Drift Society Speak Truth
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELL

Comment Failure Speak Work
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELL

Advertisement Media News Print
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

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
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL

Giving Love Positive
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Judgement People Thinking Writing
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELL

Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution

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