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The end was contained in the beginning.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
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Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
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His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
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As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
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People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.
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