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George Orwell Quotes: Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
         

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.


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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.



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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.



Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.



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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.



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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.



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