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"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?"
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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."
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"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?"
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"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
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"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."
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"Canada was built on dead beavers."
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"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."
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"The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them."
Philosophy
"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."
Nature
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love
"You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
Philosophy
"They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls."
Spiritual
"Was he leaving home, or going home?"
Life
"I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me."
Hope
"And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life."
Strength
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."
Emotion
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Kids
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