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Vote:   | All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. |
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Vote: | As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. |
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Vote: | During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. |
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Vote: | Each 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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Vote: | Good writing is like a windowpane. |
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Vote: | In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. |
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Vote: | It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. |
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Vote: | Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. |
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Vote: | On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. |
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Vote: | Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. |
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Vote: | Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon - Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already - lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. |
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Vote: | The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. |
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Vote: | To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions. |
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Vote: | War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. |
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Vote: | We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. |
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Vote: | Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. |