1 Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
2 As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago.
3 In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
4 The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
5 The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.
6 The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world.
7 In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.
8 Moreover, the labour of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world's economy.
9 Even the geographical knowledge that one needed in transferring the war from one part of the world to another was considerable.
10 It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known.
11 The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century.
12 Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.
13 For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.
14 All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency.
15 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.
16 In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.
17 He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.
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