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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is n...more

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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future...more

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been rename...more