The one bit of color on the woman’s body was the bright yellow of the stilettos peeking out from her sensible trousers. Fuck me shoes. Damn. Any woman who wore those shoes had a streak of the unexpected. He wondered what her underwear looked like. Something delicate and lovely? ― Lexi Blake, The Dom Who Loved Me

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking. - William Butler Yeats

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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. – Babe Ruth

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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. ― George Orwell

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.― George Orwell

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face

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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

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.― George Orwell

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ― George Orwell

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I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it. — Nonito Donaire

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