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“National identity is a con. It's good for overcoming local interests for the common good, but it is short-sighted and counterproductive when it promotes the interests of a totally artificial group – 'our nation' – above a more ample sense of what the common good consists of.”
― Carlo Rovelli, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness