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“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
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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.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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