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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

Ball Injured Respect Nasty
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Duty First Intelligent Men
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

Goal Chance Foul Win
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

Rules Difficult Small Game
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Acceptance Exist Happiness Only
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Adapt People Nervous Teams
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

Accept Blows Boxer Hits
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Anything Hear Liberty Means
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Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

Quality Good Players Top
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

Always Big Costs Never
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Age Folly Hatred Issues
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

Again Even Happens Laugh
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

Family Course Focus Prefer
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Liberal Power Without Worshipper
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

Brothers Close Everywhere Family
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

About Atrocities Capacity Committed
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

Game Kids Friends Watch
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Being Being Human Does Essence
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Altogether Back His Look
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Even on earth, the most powerful forces are unseen. Electricity is unseen, without it our modern world will not be so modern. The Internet is unseen. So, don't be doubtful of God because He is unseen.

Earth Power force Electricity Unseen
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Appearance Designed Give Language
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Freedom Ignorance Peace Slavery
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Why are people surprised when others change? Only a statue doesn't change.

Change Surprise Statute People
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Concept Fading History Lies
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Always Invincible Moment Seem
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Don't please others at the cost of displeasing yourself. Don't restore others at the cost of breaking yourself . Don't endorse others at the cost of destroying your own worth.

Yourself Please Cost Restore
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Adult Another Any Assume
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If in 2020, you don’t have a plan for what you hope to do in 2021, it means you plan to fail next year.

Plan Next year Fail 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.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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Before you are tempted to get depressed, consider those who have a harder life than you and yet are happy.
Depressed Harder Life Happy
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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Seek out solitude as often as you can. You wont hear the voice of God clearly until you shut out the voice of men.

Solitude Voice God Shut
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

About Actual Cities Civilization
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Identify your life's purpose if you want to be great. A bird that doesn't realize it was meant to fly will end up as a mediocre runner.

Identify Purpose Great Realize
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Dictatorship Does Establish Makes
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Advance Brought Equality Ever
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Information that doesn't lead to transformation is entertainment.

Information Transformation Lead Entertainment
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Find Food Long Long Run
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Those who stayed with you when you were down are friends.Those who come to you when you succeed are admirers. In life you will have many admirers and few friends.

Friends Succeed Admirers Life
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Else Follows Four Freedom
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Dirt Eternal Eternal Vigilance Liberty
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Assume Be Happy Happiness Happy
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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.

Destroy Does Exists Felt
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Always Guilty Innocent Judged
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Correctly Early Event Ever
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