"It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior."
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"For the future. For the unborn."
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"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable."
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"No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
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"Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them."
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"In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."
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"Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."
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"Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job."
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"Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying."
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"Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial"
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"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question."
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"Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy."
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"The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
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"All human relationships must be purchased with money."
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"I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice."
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"During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces."
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"Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats."
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"The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit."
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"Napoleon is always right."
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"He loved Big Brother."
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