The 2006 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dufing the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They participated as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the Coastal Division. The team was led by head coach John Bunting. They played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Tar Heels finished the season with a disappointing 3–9 record.
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“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
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And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
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—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)