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    No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

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    On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

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    Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

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    Of course, western is my native music.

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    Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want to be part of Russia," and that didn't happen. And they've been paying, actually, I think quite a high price for it, both in the ongoing war in Ukraine - which is I think increasingly unpopular in Russia - and also in the Western sanctions, and in general, the separation from the West that was caused by that.

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    Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

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    Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

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    Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

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    Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

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    Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

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    Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

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    Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

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    The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

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    Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

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    Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

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    Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

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    The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

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    The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

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    The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

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    The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I.

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    There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

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    There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

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    There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

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    The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

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    The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

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    The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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    The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

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    The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

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    The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

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    Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

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    We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

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    Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection.

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    Western man is schizophrenic.

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    Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

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    When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

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    When in doubt, make a western.

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    The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

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    Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

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    Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

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    Western films don't do very well in India.

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    We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

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    Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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    Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

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    Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

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    You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

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    Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

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    You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

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    You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

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    A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.

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    A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.