"Before the rise of the nation-state, between the……" — Robert Reich
"Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them."
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136 Quotes by Robert Reich
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Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to…
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its…
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There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always…
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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing…
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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data,…
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Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism .…
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When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and…
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The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run…
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I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has…
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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
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Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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