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#1. For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.

Rosario Dawson

#3. Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#4. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

Edward Hirsch

#5. Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Janet Fitch

#6. Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

George Muller

#7. All I know is a door into the dark

Seamus Heaney

#8. I could leave here and return to my hometown, but I would not return as the person I was when I left,' he explained. 'I would not recognize anyone. And no one would recognize me.

Patrick DeWitt

#9. What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Stanley Donen