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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
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At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
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The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
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Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell in 1984
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell in 1984
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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