"The only certain thing about the future is……" — Eric Hobsbawm

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

— Eric Hobsbawm

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18 Quotes by Eric Hobsbawm

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Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international…
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when…
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group,…
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're…
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a…
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen

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