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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
— Mark Twain
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life -…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in…
— James M. Barrie
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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
— Jane Austen
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of…
— Florence Nightingale
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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a…
— Virginia Woolf
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning…
— Walt Whitman
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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following…
— George Eliot
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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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