"It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies."

-- Simon Kuper

#Soccer Quotes #Country Quotes #Caring Quotes

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”
“Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.”
“I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.”
“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”
“The brave person thinks of himself last of all.”
“A gentleman never talks about his tailor.”
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.”
“If it doesn't make the world better - don't do it.”

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