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![“There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we…” quote by Richard Bach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/richard-bach-424_answers_there-are-two-tests-that-we-writers-have_948747.jpg)
![“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/terry-eagleton-1660_beckham_f-or-the-most-part-football-these-days-i_303401.jpg)
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