Mark Steel quotes
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“The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'”
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“As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.”
-- Mark SteelSource : Mark Steel (2001). “Reasons to be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker”
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“Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'”
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“We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.”
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“Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.”
-- Mark SteelSource : “Spot the balls” by Mark Steel, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 1999.
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“Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.”
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“An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”
Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
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Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.
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“Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.”
Source : "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.
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