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George Orwell: The Sporting Spirit

(a 1945 quote)

“Even if one didn’t know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.“

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Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 11:16 am in Beijing Olympics, history, international, quote   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL

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