It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my brother thrived in the capitalist kindergarten of the Monopoly board, developing a set of ruthless strategies whose success is reflected in his bank balance even to this day. I, on the other hand, can still be undone by the kind of ridiculous sentimentality that would see me sacrifice anything, anything, in order to have the three matching red-headed cards of Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and The Strand sitting tidily together on my side of the board. Danielle Wood
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  1. It’s a truth I love you, It’s a hope you do, And may I live and die with it, Not knowing that you don’t.

  2. The truth which sets men free is the truth which most men fear to accept.

  3. Fear only one person that is God, listen to only one voice that is your conscience”.

  4. Happy are those who evolve from within.

  5. Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".

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