In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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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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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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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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