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1  But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which OLDTHINK was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
2  His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
4  Only a very few words were common to all lists, and there was no vocabulary expressing the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought, irrespective of its particular branches.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
5  It was a half-page torn out of 'The Times' of about ten years earlier--the top half of the page, so that it included the date--and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.'
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
6  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9