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#1

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#2

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

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#3

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: insults, shakespeare

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#4

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit

1426 likes

#5

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

966 likes

#6

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

tags: fear, hate, hatred

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#7

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: shakespeare

786 likes

#8

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage

733 likes

#9

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3552 likes

#10

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#11

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#12

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#13

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1795 likes

#14

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1758 likes

#15

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

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#16

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#17

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: absurd

1348 likes

#18

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

tags: humanity, truth, wisdom

1281 likes

#19

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1250 likes

#20

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: enemies

836 likes

#21

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

722 likes

#22

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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#23

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
― George Orwell

tags: intellectualism

433 likes

#24

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

tags: hypocrisy, man, shooting-an-elephant

407 likes

#25

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
― George Orwell

tags: writing

426 likes

#26

“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell

tags: language, political-correctness

328 likes

#27

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

275 likes

#28

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984

268 likes

#29

“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational, life

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