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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Crito
― Crito
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
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