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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
[ Equality ]
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
[ Equality ]
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The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
[ Communism and Socialism ]
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
[ Communism and Socialism ]
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
[ Perfection ]
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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
[ Common Sense ]
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
[ Suffering ]
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
[ Animals ]
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
[ Progress ]
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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
[ Spirituality ]
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
[ Achievement ]
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