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1  He tried to make her understand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  You understand the construction of this cage.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  But in the end you will do more than understand it.
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4  What pure power means you will understand presently.
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5  They would understand that--O'Brien would understand it.
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6  In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now.
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7  You understand,' he said, 'that you will be fighting in the dark.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
8  You understand well enough HOW the Party maintains itself in power.
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9  You will understand that I must start by asking you certain questions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
10  Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
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11  The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
12  His tiny sister, too young to understand what the game was about, had sat propped up against a bolster, laughing because the others were laughing.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
13  She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
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14  Meanwhile I shall send you a copy of THE BOOK'--even O'Brien, Winston noticed, seemed to pronounce the words as though they were in italics--'Goldstein's book, you understand, as soon as possible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  To understand the nature of the present war--for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war--one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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