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George William Curtis
: Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
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Charlie Chaplin :
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Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
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Archibald Macleish :
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
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Howard Cosell :
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The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
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Don Delillo :
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People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
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The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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