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The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.
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West
World
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I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.
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People
Wish
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Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
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Atheism
Monotheism
Turns
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All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.
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Men
Sick
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The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
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Ideas
Slavery
Successful
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Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.
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Response
Western
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Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.
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Successful
West
World
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Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.
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Minorities
Way
Western Culture
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Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
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New York
Admire
Civilization
Library
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I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.
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Christian
Play
Thinking
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The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.
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Miracle
Responsibility
Rights
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By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.
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New York
Benefits
Breathing
Civilization
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I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.
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Culture
Opera
Should
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
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Civilization
Liberty
Pursuit Of Happiness
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We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.
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Criticism
Islam
Winning
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While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
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Ideas
Islamic
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Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.
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Art
Civilization
Taste
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Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.
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Development
Looks
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The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.
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Home
Country
Rich Countries
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In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.
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Christian
Country
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Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.
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East
Islam
Slavery
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You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.
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Children
Growing Up
Parent
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Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.
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Sex
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In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live as we choose. Liberty is codified in human rights, a magnificent Western creation but also, I believe, a universal good.
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Rights
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Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.
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Marketing
Opinion
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Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.
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African Tribes
Black
Self
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I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.
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School
Strong
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The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.
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Mind
Rome
Roots
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Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.
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Charity
Merit
Self
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Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child who lives in an over-protected environment, who suddenly has to go out and earn a living and has to stand up on his own feet.
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Children
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The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.
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Art
New York
Ambition
Cities
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I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.
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Christian
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It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.
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Civilization
Gay
Religious
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A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.
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Men
Ideas
Spiritual
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As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.
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White
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We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.
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Book
Law
Real
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The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.
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The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.
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New York
Believe
Civilization
Other Cultures
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