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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. – George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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Jealousy
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. – John Wooden

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This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, – to give lifes best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. – Joshua Chamberlain

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When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal weve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. – Earl Nightingale

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