"[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so."

-- Eric Hobsbawm

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“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”
“Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.”
“To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.”
“As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.”
“Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.”

Source : "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.
“The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.”
“For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “Eternal Perspectives: A Collection of Quotations on Heaven, the New Earth, and Life after Death”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.”

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