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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle . — Eric Hobsbawm

I think everybody in this world should be loved. — Lee Taemin

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. — Les Baxter

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. — Stella Young

Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?' — John Kessel

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. — Eric Hobsbawm

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy — Eric Hobsbawm

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. — Eric Hobsbawm

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive — Eric Hobsbawm

Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another. — Zephyr A. McIntyre

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run. — Eric Hobsbawm

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls. — Jacqueline Cochran

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force. — Eric Hobsbawm

As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful, — Eric Hobsbawm

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. — Eric Hobsbawm

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people. — Eric Hobsbawm

Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution. — Eric Hobsbawm

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question. — Eric Hobsbawm

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm

I was really shy as a kid. — Tim Meadows

Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related. — Eric Hobsbawm

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works. — Harvey Weinstein

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. — Charlie Munger