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Quote by George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt though

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words. – Jamie Lynn Morris

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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. – Alfred North Whitehead

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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. – Julia Penelope

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