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Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.

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original | ballesterer fm: Denken Sie zur Zeit auch an den Irak-Krieg? Wie bei den Bosnian Kriegen/ Genozid reden jetzt auch wieder manche von einem angeblichen Kampf der Kulturen im Nahen Osten. | Diese Kugel hat schon genug Probleme, und langsam könnten wir beginnen nachzudenken, wie wir mit einander besser zusammenleben können. Ich frage mich: Bekommen die nicht langsam Kopfschmerzen vom ständigen Kriegführen? | Osim: Kampf der Kulturen? Normalerweise kämpfen Kulturen nicht. Deshalb sind sie Kulturen: weil sie keine Kriege führen. | -->

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A team is successful when they make a difference, not because of their trophies.

Inevitably you start to loose ideas and authority. You don’t want to provoke crises, but you need problems so you can create solutions.

This sphere has enough problems as it is, and slowly we could start thinking about how we can live better together. I ask myself: Aren't they starting to get a headache from the constant warfare?

You don't dig a new well if you have water in an old well. If we are going to build a team, we must build it around a group of experienced players.

In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.

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