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We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. Franz Beckenbauer

Fool World Top Ourselves More Any Should Teams

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better? Franz Beckenbauer

Money Better Important Would Most Most Important Thing Because Important Thing However Afford Stadium The Most Important Anything Mighty Us Use Team Useless Thing

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums. Franz Beckenbauer

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans. Franz Beckenbauer

Today Future Time Good Fans Long Long Time Not Good Enough Enough No Future Only Had Football Clear Built Been Modern May Stadium Reasons Many Early Olympic

In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media. Franz Beckenbauer

World Every Rising Tournament Tensions Develops Come Within Always How Cup Depends Much Team Media World Cup

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible. Franz Beckenbauer

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt. Franz Beckenbauer

You Game Every Rugby Our Minutes Football Also American Move Different American Football Soccer Moving Play Interrupt Two Interruption

If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football. Franz Beckenbauer

Religions die slowly. Franz Marc

Religions Slowly Die

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow. Franz Marc

Today Natural Tomorrow Will Appears

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel

Art God Religion Humanity Between Dialogue Everlasting

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. Franz von Papen

Freedom Spiritual Political Will Nation National Written Demands Were Movement Banner Which Social Act Internal Conscience External

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. Franz von Papen

Will Party Nation Hoped Above Leaders Movement Place

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another. Franz von Papen

Leadership Party State Concepts Another Domination Incompatible

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. Franz von Papen

Government Party Claims Parliament Majority Itself Gain Might

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

People Obey Give Laws Prince For The People His Mandate

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world. Frei Otto

Today Interior World Space Three Living Think Everything Drawings Eye Tried Object Three-Dimensional Architects Computer Most Always Brain Did Flat Should Monitor Two-Dimensional

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. Frei Otto

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. Frei Otto

Time Me Natural Humanity People Will Drive Whatever Natural Disasters Design Types Following Architectural New Disasters Buildings Doing Been Left Which Poor Poor People Use Help Keep

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Frei Otto

Humane Promote Only Buildings Human Peaceful

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters. Friedrich Ebert

Freedom Justice Sisters Twin

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. Friedrich Ebert

Song Nation National Our Thus Least Germans Unites Symbol

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. Friedrich List

Welfare Nation Own Members Promoting General General Welfare Individual Part Check His May Interest Public Public Interest Injure

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