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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Category: Advertising Author: George Orwell
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Category: Animal Rights Author: George Orwell
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Category: Language Author: George Orwell
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I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
Category: Soccer Author: 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... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
Category: Sports Author: George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Category: Virtue Author: George Orwell
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