"Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence."

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Source : 1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

Bobby Charlton

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“The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.”
“The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.”
“All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.”
“It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.”

Source : Margaret Widdemer (1917). “The Wishing-ring Man”
“It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness temporal, spiritual, and eternal consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.
“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”
“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.”
“The Republican critique here is that Russia is in a weak situation, but has been emboldened by a weak response from the United States, that in Ukraine, that in other places, the United States has not stepped forward.”

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