Quotes
Authors
Ernest Gellner

"In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest."

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.1, Cornell University Press

Ernest Gellner

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“I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.”
“I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.”
“You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
“Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.”
“There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.282, Del Rey
“Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.”
“Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-”

Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.155, Macmillan

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