The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~ George Orwell

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Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it.
~ George Orwell

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
~ George Orwell

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
~ George Orwell

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
~ George Orwell

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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.
~ George Orwell

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell

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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
~ George Orwell

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