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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have…
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at…
— Elihu Thomson
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We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds…
— Nick Hornby
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless…
— William Shakespeare
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Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in…
— Leon Krier
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