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

George Orwell

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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Judgement People Thinking Writing
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
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
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.
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Giving Love Positive
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
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual

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