Ernest Gellner Quotes
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
Ernest Gellner
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
Saint Ambrose
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
Viktor Orban
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I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.
Amandla Stenberg
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Wayne Rogers
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I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State
Zach Braff
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
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All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.
Chris Matthews
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
Ernest Gellner