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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
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