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George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
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