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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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"Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen." »Luke Rhinehart
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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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"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations." »Elizabeth II
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"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage." »Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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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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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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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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