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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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