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"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." »Sophia Loren
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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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"(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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"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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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." »John Burroughs
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"LEONARD I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious. CHRIS I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered." »Barbara Hall
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"You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song." »William Butler Yeats
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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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"Much of the social history of the western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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