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I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
— Eduardo Galeano
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Eduardo Galeano
poet, writer, journalist, essayist
1940 – 2015
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".
All Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
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We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.
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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 wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
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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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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
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The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.
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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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History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
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In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
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Yolda giden bir adam nedir? Zaman.
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