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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough m

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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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. – George Orwell

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Wise men dont need advice. Fools wont take it. – Benjamin Franklin

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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! – William Shakespeare

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Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty. – Edwin Louis Cole

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