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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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settling
foreigners
strangers
home
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Cormac McCarthy |
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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.
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slavery
foreigners
patriotism
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Michael Shaara |
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One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
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philosophy
cognitive-dissonance
confirmation-bias
foreigners
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Iain M. Banks |
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But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen.
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bourgeois-society
objectification
objectification-of-women
foreigners
bad-taste
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care to know. They are too polite to say that it is a pity that foreigners exist, but if they had to think about it, they would think so.
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nationalism
xenophobia
foreigners
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.
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travel
reason
humor
foreigner
unfriendly
visitor
humours
foreign
foreigners
traveling
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David Weber |