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Thanks, but my name is Gracias. — Jarod Kintz

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 did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. — Auguste Rodin

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. — Steve Earle

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. — Julian Assange

I'm not annoying in relationships! I'm great! — Leona Lewis

People do not lack strength, they lack will. — Victor Hugo

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

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

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. — Princess Diana

I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly. — Miranda Lambert

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

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

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar. — Shayla Black

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

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

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