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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
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
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
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
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
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
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
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
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
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism

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