"Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and……" — Raymond Williams
"Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known."
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Raymond Williams
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12 Quotes by Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams has 12 quotes on this site.
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for…
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Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
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A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their…
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual…
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On…
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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More Achievement Quotes
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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