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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – 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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. – George S. Patton

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I dont know one who wouldnt fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. – George Jean Nathan

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