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.

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. - George Orwell Quote

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. - George Orwell Quote

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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