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  • #1
    “Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”
    Bill Shankly

  • #2
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
    Winston S. Churchill
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  • #3
    Gore Vidal
    “Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
    Gore Vidal

  • #4
    “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

    Bill Shankly

  • #5
    “When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along”
    Bill Shankly

  • #6
    “This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”
    Bill Shankly

  • #7
    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #8
    Gore Vidal
    “To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.”
    Gore Vidal, At Home: Essays 1982-1988

  • #9
    Bill Maher
    “NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?”
    Bill Maher

  • #10
    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    Gore Vidal, Screening History

  • #11
    Gore Vidal
    “The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
    Gore Vidal

  • #12
    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #13
    Stephen Colbert
    “It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #14
    Stephen Colbert
    “If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #15
    Stephen Colbert
    “I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #16
    Stephen Colbert
    “There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #17
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

  • #18
    Christopher Hitchens
    “it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists”
    Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

  • #19
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #20
    Tony Benn
    “There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
    Tony Benn

  • #21
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #22
    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #24
    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben



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