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.
—George Orwell, 1945
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It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCDeath keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCWeaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969