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Last Checked July 26, 2022

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Tue Jul 19 13:09:21 +0000 2022

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

1. Short Orwell đź§µ. By the way, how great is Orwell? Here are excerpts from the short book review, from January 1939, containing the famous "restatement of the obvious" line: https://t.co/e0RzVOWCgW — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 19, 2022

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When Orwell wrote in 1939 that "we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious" is our first duty, did he know he was offering solace to all of us who'd subsequently write pieces making perfectly obvious points? (Like mine today--https://t.co/xi4E67ZQK4.) https://t.co/i6tbDXXNly — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 19, 2022

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2. From George Orwell's review of Bertrand Russell’s 'Power: A New Social Analysis,' January 1939. "If there are certain pages of Mr. Bertrand Russell’s book, Power, which seem rather empty, that is merely to say that we have now sunk to a depth... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 19, 2022

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