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“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”
Source : Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books
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“If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.”
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“I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.”
Source : "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.
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“My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ***** thick ***** they can.”
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“Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”
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“There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels”
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“There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
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“If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk