"Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle ."

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Source : "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.

Eric Hobsbawm

#Xenophobia Quotes #Looks Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.”
“Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.”

Source : "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.
“Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”
“I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”
“I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.”
“If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.”
“The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.”

Source : FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Apr 21, 2013

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