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"Nationalism supplies and feeds on continuous histories of discrete peoples and cultures. But the nation-state is a phenomenon of the modern era and long-term national histories are therefore more or less bogus. Peoples have linear inheritances, but also they experience discontinuities and external influences. How then can there be a history of ‘India’?" — May 17, 2013 11:23pm
"Nationalism supplies and feeds on continuous histories of discrete peoples and cultures. But the nation-state is a phenomenon of the modern era and long-term national histories are therefore more or less bogus. Peoples have linear inheritances, but also they experience discontinuities and external influences. How then can there be a history of ‘India’?" — May 17, 2013 11:23pm
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"AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn’t fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings. In Confucian China, in ancient Sparta, in Republican Rome, in the early Pilgrim settlements of New England, and among the British upper classes of the Victorian era, people were held responsible for keeping a tight rein on their emotions ... [contd]" — May 11, 2013 06:25am
"AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn’t fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings. In Confucian China, in ancient Sparta, in Republican Rome, in the early Pilgrim settlements of New England, and among the British upper classes of the Victorian era, people were held responsible for keeping a tight rein on their emotions ... [contd]" — May 11, 2013 06:25am
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A collection of anti-capitalist essays that advocate a more inclusive planning environment. Gets a bit repetitive after the first couple of essays. The point being made is that once high-speed economic development starts with a part of the population...more |
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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english teacher in seventh grade!
read in July, 2012
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On Romancing The Devil Warning: This review might contain spoilers even outside the hidden 'spoiler alert' regions. I honestly am not capable of discriminating. The book is not about the murder or about who did it, those things were very apparent befo...more |
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“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
― Niels Bohr
― Niels Bohr
“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― E.E. Cummings
― E.E. Cummings
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky
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