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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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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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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
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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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Every 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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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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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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