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Four legs good, two legs bad.

~George Orwell

Topics: Bad Four Good Legs Two

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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

~George Orwell

Topics: Comfortable Intelligent Make Masses Materials Might Otherwise Pieces Too Used War Way Which

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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

~George Orwell

Topics: Achieve Aspire Beings Felt Genuinely Human Human Beings Many Much Never People Probable Sainthood Saints Some Temptation Want Who

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

~George Orwell

Topics: Atom Bombs Cities Earth Factories Going Lies Police Round Still Streaming Sun Through Up

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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.

~George Orwell

Topics: Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play Hatred In Other Words Jealousy Minus Nothing Other Play Pleasure Rules Sadistic Serious Shooting Sport Up Violence War Witnessing Words

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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

~George Orwell

Topics: Liberal Power Without Worshipper

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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

~George Orwell

Topics: Beings Heroic Human Human Beings Pinch

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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.

~George Orwell

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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.

~George Orwell

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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

~George Orwell

Topics: After Belong Class Dreadful Feared Further Get Lose May Middle Middle Class Nothing Sink Sinking Struggles Where Will Without Working Working Class

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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