"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."

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Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.

Eric Hobsbawm

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.”
“I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.89, Basic Books
“Everybody's been decrying the death of movie theaters for decades and, you know, people are still going to the movies in droves. It's gone down, but it hasn't gone down that much. I think the biggest change has been the emergence of cable and streaming on television. That has really had a dramatic effect, and I think it's a positive one. I think there's really good work going on there, and as movies stratify to being these gigantic tentpole movies, and small movies, I think it gives another outlet for character-driven material.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!”
“Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.”
“The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.”
“I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.”

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