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Serious sport is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

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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Time
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell

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Freedom
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell

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You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a good outcome. – Peter Singer

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War

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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War

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. – Bob Schieffer

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War

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that were engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. – Dick Cheney

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War

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

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Control your own destiny or someone else will. – Jack Welch

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I love you more than my own skin. – Frida Kahlo

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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. – William McKinley

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