Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
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The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the NationErnest Gellner
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The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
Norbert Wiener
Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably one's forebears'.
Steven Runciman
Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name. ... Even Dan Brown must live. Preferably not write, but live.
Dan Brown
Work, intoxication, brain racking, chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up, rapturous birthpangs, jabbing of the brush, preferably right through the canvas, trampling on paint tubes.
Max Pechstein
When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
Jack McDevitt
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