"As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football."

-- Ian Mortimer

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“When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”
“The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.”
“I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.”
“Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.”
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.”

Source : Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press
“I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!”

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