Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.― George Orwell

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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. - George Orwell

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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ― George Orwell

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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. ― George Orwell

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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.― George Orwell

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking. - William Butler Yeats

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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. – Babe Ruth

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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ― George Orwell

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