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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.


George F. Will

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GEORGE F. KENNAN If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its work...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...
GEORGE F. KENNAN One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH