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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

~George Orwell

Topics: Battle Battles Been Lost Opening Subsequent Wars Won

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

~George Orwell

Topics: Always Beings Demand Get Human Human Beings Little More Practice Society Than Will

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

~George Orwell

Topics: Dirty Every Funny Joke Mental Pie Rebellion Sort Subversive Ultimately Whatever

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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

Topics: Act Destruction Essential Human Labor Lives Necessarily Products War

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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

~George Orwell

Topics: Cannot Catholic Grown Really Up

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

~George Orwell

Topics: Enlightened Never People Possess Responsibility Seldom Sense

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

~George Orwell

Topics: Altogether Back His Look Say Truth Unhappy Were

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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

~George Orwell

Topics: Advantage Any Appears Cannot Creed Draw Embraced Expect Free Material Ordinary Politics Proves Right Surely Which You Yourself

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

~George Orwell

Topics: About Books Constantly Exceptionally Exhausting Feeling Indiscriminate Inventing Involves Irritating Job Only Praising Prolonged Quite Reactions Reviewing Spontaneous Thankless Towards Trash Whatever Which

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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

~George Orwell

Topics: Destroy Does Exists Felt Forces Him Man Precisely Situation Still Than Tragic Triumph Virtue Which

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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