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Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
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The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
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Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
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The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
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they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
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