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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of western science." »Gary Zukav
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"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"(On western civilization) I think it would be a good idea." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Monogamy is the western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses." »H.H. Munro (Saki)
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"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of western civilization would presumably flunk it." »Stanley Garn
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"The entire economy of the western world is built on things that cause cancer." »From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
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"Much of the social history of the western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." »Thomas Sowell
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"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals." »Charles Kuralt
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country." »Steven Wright
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"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." »General George Patton
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"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
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"western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." »Vine Deloria
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"I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." »Eugene V. Debs
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country." »Bertrand Russell
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"If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." »Richard Nelson Bolles
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"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis
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"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis
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"May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"and so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." »John F Kennedy
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"and so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time." »Charles De Gaulle
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." »E. M. Forster
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"and so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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