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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenants of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous, outrageous upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship or the semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.
It follows that three
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― Nineteen Eighty-Four
― Nineteen Eighty-Four
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In a world, slowly but consistently morphing into a well structured global tyranny, it is preferable to have questions one cannot answer; than to have answers that one cannot question.
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