"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."
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"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."
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"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
-William Shakespeare
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