"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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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