Ernest Gellner Quotes
Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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Craft is everything.
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It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
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We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
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When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes.
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
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If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
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The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.
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She was incredible -- nothing stopped her at all. Whenever I felt ill, I always used to remember that in the same circumstances she would battle on, no matter how she felt. She never gave up.
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
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Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
