George Orwell

Puzzles

• ___ is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
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• Who ___ the past ___ the future: who ___ the present ___ the past.
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• To see what is in front of ___ needs a constant struggle.
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• On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite ___.
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• The quickest way of ending a war is to ___.
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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek ___.
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• The more you are in the ___, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to George Orwell?

  • → But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
  • → Self-trust is the first secret to success.
  • → The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
  • → There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to George Orwell.

  • → The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
  • → If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
  • → Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
  • → We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to George Orwell.

  • → If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
  • → Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
  • → The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
  • → I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to George Orwell. Which one?

  • → Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
  • → The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
  • → You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
  • → For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to George Orwell?

  • → He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
  • → Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
  • → In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
  • → Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to George Orwell?

  • → What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
  • → Every joke is a tiny revolution.
  • → Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
  • → It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to George Orwell.

  • → People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
  • → Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.
  • → Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
  • → If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to George Orwell. Which one?

  • → Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
  • → It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
  • → Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
  • → We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
  
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