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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an…
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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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…
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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…
— J. Allen Hynek
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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…
— Oscar Wilde
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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…
— Edward Abbey
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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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