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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
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In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
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Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until…
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The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to…
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No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
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The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
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The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that…
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Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of…
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The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
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Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…
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The hero can never be a relativist.
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The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the…
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I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st…
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire…
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Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of…
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In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
— Richard M. Weaver
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
— Rudyard Kipling
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A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many…
— Unknown Author
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise…
— O. Henry
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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that…
— Carl Sagan
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans,…
— Molly Ivins
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