The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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