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"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
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There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds
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“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.
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