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| Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise |
| Balance; Youth |
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| Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. |
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| Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. |
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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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| No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. |
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| Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards |
| Adulthood |
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| Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria |
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| Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia |
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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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| One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. |
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| One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool. |
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| Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. |
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| Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism |
| Patriotism |
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| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
| People; Violence |
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| Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. |
| Insanity |
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| Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. |
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| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
| Appearance; Politicians |
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