Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - 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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.― 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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ― George Orwell

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face

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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.― 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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