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• Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Mother, Baby, New York

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.107, New York Review of Books

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• The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Agriculture, Village

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). "La ascensión del hombre"

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• Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores.

  Manu Joseph

  Civilization, Dumb, Culture

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.297, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Dying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.19

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• Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

  Pat Conroy

  Queens, Moving, Black

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). "LOS PEORES AÑOS DE NUESTRAS VIDAS", Pantheon

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• My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Home, People

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Heart, Opportunity

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• Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Catharsis, Goes On

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• It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

  Richard Leakey

  Migrants, Kenya, Impossible

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• Pero los nómadas eran el terror de todos aquellos a quienes el suelo o las ventajas del mercado habían inducido a construir ciudades. La agricultura era, pues, un mandato religioso, debido a los peligros que el nomadismo entrañaba para el Estado.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religión, Agricultura, Suelo

  Ralph Waldo Emerson David Mikics (2012). "The Annotated Emerson", p.149, Harvard University Press.

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• El genio en el poeta, como el nómada de Arabia, siempre errante, siempre se instala allí donde el pozo o la palmera le invitan a acampar. Perpetuamente saliendo de sí mismo y de su propia condición circunstancial positiva de ser hacia otros corazones y otras condiciones, el poeta obtiene su conocimiento de la vida humana transportando su propia vida a la vida de los demás.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Corazón, Hogar, Árbol

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• At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Lakes, Yield, Arabia

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

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• Los escépticos, una especie de nómadas, despreciando todo cultivo asentado de la tierra, rompían de vez en cuando toda sociedad civil. Afortunadamente su número era reducido, y no podían impedir que los antiguos colonos volvieran a cultivar la tierra de nuevo, aunque sin ningún plan ni acuerdo fijo.

  Immanuel Kant

  Agreement, Land, Numbers

  Immanuel Kant (1915). “Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

  Eve Ensler

  New York, Paris, Saint

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• Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Childhood, Literature

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• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Sports, Science, Discipline

  "Chaos: Making a New Science". Book by James Gleick, p. 70, 1987.

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• There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Land, Two

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.144, The Overlook Press

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Spirit

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  War, Government, Groups

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• Los campesinos desposeídos se abren paso a golpe de tala y quema en las selvas tropicales de América Latina, los nómadas hambrientos llevan sus rebaños a los frágiles pastizales africanos, reduciéndolos a desiertos, y los pequeños agricultores de la India y Filipinas cultivan laderas escarpadas, exponiéndolas al poder erosivo de la lluvia. Quizás la mitad de los más de mil millones de pobres absolutos del mundo están atrapados en una espiral descendente de empobrecimiento ecológico y económico. Desesperados, abusan de la tierra a sabiendas, salvando el presente a costa del futuro.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latín, Lluvia, Tierra

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• Nuestra política y nuestra ciencia nunca han dominado el hecho de que las personas necesitan algo más que comprender su obligación mutua y para con la tierra; necesitan también el sentimiento de dicha obligación, y el sentimiento sólo puede surgir dentro de los patrones de la familiaridad. Una nación de nómadas urbanos, como en la que nos hemos convertido, puede simplemente ser incapaz de perturbarse lo suficiente por su destrucción de la salud ecológica de la tierra, porque la dependencia de la gente de la tierra, aunque se les haya explicado una y otra vez en términos generales, no es inmediata a sus sentimientos.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Feelings

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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