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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.
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"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," Tribune (12 April 1946, page 10, last paragraph)

 

George Orwell

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