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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual

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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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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Jealousy
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell

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Education
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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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Time
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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War

A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb

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War

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, youd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. – George H. W. Bush

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War

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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. – Saint Francis de Sales

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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didnt know how other people would take it. – B. B. King

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All for one, one for all, that is our device. – Alexander Dumas

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I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, its fundamentally a form of entertainment. – Gregg Easterbrook

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