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Today, let us compare quotes between George Will's essay on steroids in baseball, and The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide".
Will: "[Baseball] is the greatest topic of conversation America has produced."
Klingon: "Great deeds, great songs."
Will: "A large majority of players are honorable or prudent or both."
Klingon: "Klingons are a proud race, and we intend to go on being proud."
Will: "Professional athletes stand at an apex of achievement because they have paid a price in disciplined exertion -- a manifestation of good character."
Klingon: "Admire the person with dirt under his fingernails."
Will: "They do not use steroids, which are dangerous as well as dishonorable."
Klingon: "One does not achieve honor while acting dishonorably."
Will: " Athletes chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued."
Klingon: "We fight to enrich the spirit."
Will: "And surely all non-cheating players dislike playing under the cloud of suspicion that their achievements are tainted."
Klingon: "The Klingon who kills without showing his face has no honor."
Will: "So he faces a choice of jeopardizing either his career or his health."
Klingon: "To really succeed, you must enjoy eating poison."
Will: "Now baseball's third era is ending -- the era of disgracefully lively players."
Klingon: "Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory."
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