Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell

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

- George Orwell

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

- George Orwell

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

- George Orwell

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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

- George Orwell

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"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

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"So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly."

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"In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life."

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"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and receipts for all major purchases."

- Bridger Winegar

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"Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

- Zimbabwean Proverb

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