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Quote by 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 essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. – Ludovico Ariosto

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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. – Robert A. Heinlein

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He that is jealous is not in love. – Saint Augustine

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. – Robert Morgan

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. – William E. Gladstone

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