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“Everything you need is already inside.”
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“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ”
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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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