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The citizen of oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.
-George Orwell
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The Citizen Of Oceania Is Not Allowed

George Orwell
The citizen of oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.
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