"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
-George Orwell
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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 have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
-George Orwell
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
-George Orwell
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"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
-George Orwell
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
-Jim Morrison
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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