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Archive for May, 2009

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“Football is working class ballet.” – Alf Garnett

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“[Football] is not just a simple game. It is a weapon of the revolution.” – Che Guevara

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“I hate Andrew Lloyd Webber. He’s a wanker, isn’t he?” – Ian Dury

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“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

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“We need to change the cavalier attitude to data of a Facebook generation.” – Mick Gorrill, assistant Information Commissioner in the UK

Full article from The Independent

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“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.” – Albert Camus

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“I think the level of casualties is secondary…all the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war… What we hate is not casualties but losing.” – Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute

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“I worked some gigs in the Deep South, Alabama. Talk about Darwin’s waiting room. There are guys in Alabama who are their own father.” – Dennis Miller

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“Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.” – Frank Zappa

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“You can really hear the six-year-old inside Tony Blair. He knows he has done wrong, but he is jumping up and down, shouting, ‘No mummy, I didn’t do it, I didn’t!” – Lucy Porter

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“We are living in a surveillance society but our data protection laws aren’t up to the job.” – The National Consumer Council

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“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.” – Edmund Burke

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“I just don’t understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden.” – Paul Wolfowitz, April 30th 2001

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“Munitions makers. Bankers. Ship builders. Manufacturers. Meat packers. Speculators. They would fare well. Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn’t they? It pays high dividends.” – Major General Smedley Butler

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“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” – Major General Smedley Butler