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• The belly comes before the soul.
• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
• We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in…
• International football is the continuation of war by other means.
• I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to…
• The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
• The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society…
• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops…
• "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.
• To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes.…
• To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions…
• All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…

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