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1  Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
2  You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
5  At the sight of the words I LOVE YOU the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
6  He had been appointed to a sub-committee of a sub-committee which had sprouted from one of the innumerable committees dealing with minor difficulties that arose in the compilation of the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
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