Benedict Anderson Quotes
No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.
Benedict Anderson
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Seth Godin
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One study suggests that the most effective way to increase an Achievement may be to try simply and directly to alter the nature of an individual’s fantasies
David McClelland
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
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So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
Norm Dicks
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I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.
Hayley Atwell
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And if nothing is repeated in the same way, all things are last things.
Antonio Porchia
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Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.
Karl von Frisch
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen
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This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.
Benedict Anderson
