Ernest Gellner Quotes
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.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
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I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
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So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this.
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As an older generation, we need to give all our young people love and the possibility of realizing their dreams. For instance, if I get really political, the fact that some people can't go to college, can't even think about college, that's not American; that's not right.
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We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,
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It's fantastic news that the Aviva Women's Tour will continue in 2016.
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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.
