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" The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. "
Eduardo Galeano
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" The walls are the publishers of the poor. "
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" Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. "
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" A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet. "
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" I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. "
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" The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots. "
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" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "
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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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" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "
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" Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. "
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" From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic. "
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" I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. "
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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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" I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. "
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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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" Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories. "
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" The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. "
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" When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person. "
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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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" In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America. "
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" The diversity of life is so stimulating for me. "
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" We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. "
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