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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
— John Oliver Killens
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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass…
— Muhammad Asad
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If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he…
— Ram Dass
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The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
— Robinson Jeffers
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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
— Phil Ochs
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate…
— Alexander Lowen
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The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs…
— George Steiner
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to…
— Fatema Mernissi
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe…
— Christopher Dawson
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It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.…
— John le Carre
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I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120…
— Stephen Colbert
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Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become…
— Rene Dubos
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