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" Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. "
George Orwell
Life
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People
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" The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. "
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" Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. "
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" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "
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" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
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" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "
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" At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. "
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" War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "
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" 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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" We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "
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" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "
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" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "
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" 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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" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
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" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. "
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" Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. "
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" Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. "
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" Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. "
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" But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "
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Language
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" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "
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Most
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" The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. "
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Labor
Products
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" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
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" Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
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" The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. "
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Through
" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "
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Heaven
Good
Evil
" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "
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" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "
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" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "
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" There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. "
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" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "
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" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "
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