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1  If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction--indeed, in some sense was the destruction--of a hierarchical society.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  They add nothing to the wealth of the world, since whatever they produce is used for purposes of war, and the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process--by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute--the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9