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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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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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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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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I love living downtown.
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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.
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I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
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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.