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Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.


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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.



The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.



The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.



The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.



If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.



All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.



Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.



So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.



It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.



People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.





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I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

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Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.

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