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What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Belonging Billy British Brown Commitment Form George George Orwell Gordon Identity Left Linked Modern Myself Need Our Patriotism Politics Sense Understanding Unites

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To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths - love, fear, belonging, desire, and so on.

~David Droga

Topics: Belonging Desire Different Every Fear Fundamentally Honest Human Inspired Love Market Moved Similar Still To Be Honest Truths Very While

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When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

~David Mazzucchelli

Topics: Artist Author Belonging Comics Designer Group Interested Introduce Liked Mainstream Myself Only Young

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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Agricultural Belonging Cultivation Equal Land Ordinary Produce Profits Rate Rent Stock Then Together Usual Value Whenever Whole

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I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Being Belonging Denies Deny Everything Great Hate Just Language Making Master Nonsense Outlet Shakespeare Thinking Touching Whether You

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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

~Dolley Madison

Topics: Articles Been Belonging Filled Had Hour House Late Most Plate Portable Valuable Wagon

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Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

~Donald Sinden

Topics: Always Been Believer Belonging Carry Great Great Believer Hands Henry Me Part Playing Sarah Something Touching Used Whatever

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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

~Eartha Kitt

Topics: After Any Belonging Belongs Black Carry Everybody General General Public Group Made Me Myself Never Particular Person Public Think Woman

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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Ballads Battles Belonging Childhood Defeats Dock Eventually Fuse Had History Insistence Irish Learned Lost Me Nation National Never New New Way Occurred Offer Only Past Power Read Spaces Speeches Studied Tradition Tried Vivid Way Would

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People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

~Edwin Morgan

Topics: Able Always Area Belonging City Difficulties Extending Finding Getting Glasgow Had Itself Keep Keeps Maybe Myself New Out Over People Problems Renew Say Social Social Problems Some Too Transforming Ways

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