And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed

George Orwell
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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ✨ Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19
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