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" Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. "

Eduardo Galeano

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" Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again. "

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" There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear. "

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" The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi. "

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" From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way. "

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" I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it. "

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" Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. "

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" The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous. "

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" My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude. "

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" Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. "

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" The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. "

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