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1  The past never had been altered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered.
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3  Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside.
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4  And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
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5  With the development of machine production, however, the case was altered.
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6  The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.
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7  It also follows that though the past is alterable, it never has been altered in any specific instance.
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8  Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different.
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9  When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  This holds good even when, as often happens, the same event has to be altered out of recognition several times in the course of a year.
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11  Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets--anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
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12  The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  Winston, in addition to his regular work, spent long periods every day in going through back files of 'The Times' and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches.'
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14  Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
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15  The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.
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16  They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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