"America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it."

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Source : "Anthropology and Politics". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1995.

Ernest Gellner

#America Quotes #Modern Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.”
“Good memories are our second chance at happiness.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.”
“Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.”
“Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.”
“I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, â€œYou allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?”
“I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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