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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell

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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. – Gary Allan

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. – Josh Billings

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. – William Davis

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Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. – Juan Antonio Samaranch

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Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover. – Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), A Pesachdike Expropriacie, 1908

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