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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
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
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind 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
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
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
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Business Hide Mask Secret Yourself
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
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
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
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 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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth

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