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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
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"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."
"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."
"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"
"I believe it went like this-and stop me if I'm wrong, Mousey: 'Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too."
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
"The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family."
"Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals."
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"I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself."
"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."
"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
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