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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

~Eric Hobsbawm

Topics: Against Contradictions Historians Justifies Makes Nation Nations One Nation Others Past People Produce Terms Who Without

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

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

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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

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Topics: Against American Because Group Itself Like Measures Outcast Patriotism Really Right Seems Who Wrong

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

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Topics: Against Chinese Cultural Directed Expansion Foreign Global Imports Indian People Restaurants Xenophobia

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1917

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