"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."

Orwell, George on sports
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"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."

Orwell, George on modern and modernism   

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."

Orwell, George on oppression
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"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

Proverb on hope
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

Orwell, George on candor
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George on tragedies
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"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]"

Bible on parents and parenting
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"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph on passion
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"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Brecht, Bertolt on peace
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

Proverb on advice
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"Tomorrow never comes."

Proverb on the future   

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Perot, H. Ross on action
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Picasso, Pablo on action
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"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

Proverb, Indian on action
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action   

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"Action is eloquence."

Shakespeare, William on action
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"Good things happen to those who hustle."

Noll, Chuck on action
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"Action expresses priorities."

Garfield, Charles A. on action
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Gaulle, Charles De on action
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

Hazlitt, William on action
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"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton on action
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"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."

Letterman, Elmer G. on action
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Act, don't react!"

Unknown, Source on action
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"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."

Pascal, Blaise on admiration   

"They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc."

Frank, Anne on adolescence
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."

Frank, Anne on adversity
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"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Frank, Anne on happiness
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"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again."

Frank, Anne on ideals and idealism
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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

Frank, Anne on potential
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