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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

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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. ↗

— George Orwell

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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ↗

— George Orwell

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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. ↗

— George Orwell

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow. ↗

— Adam Osborne

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I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. ↗

— George Osborne

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