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“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“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.

(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell