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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in...

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists...

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Quote by Richard Gere

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Quote by Dennis Farina about real estate, love

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different...

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about modesty

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the...

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Quote by Armand Assante about film, things, day

There are other stories about Italians I'd like to tell...

There are other stories about Italians I'd like to tell that have nothing to do with Westerns.

Quote by Armand Assante about opinion, nothing

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, ...

When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about shame, poverty, wealth, contentment

In any good traveling western, some of the characters die.

In any good traveling western, some of the characters die.

Quote by Peter Fonda about death, good, good luck

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to...

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Quote by Tom Hanks about christmas, quiet, home, house

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, essential, faith, world

All cops who stop cowboys going to or from a meet never...

All cops who stop cowboys going to or from a meet never have a sense of western humor.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, humor, common sense, sense

Under the above mentioned laws always try substituting -...

Under the above mentioned laws always try substituting - Old Western Texas Poets Sonneteer Society for Vigilante Colt Justice Shooting Club.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, poets, justice, society, old, olderness

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about life

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and...

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Quote by Camille Paglia about religion, bodybuilding, mathematics, sport, science, art, magic, nature

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his...

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about heredity, heroism, god, experience

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify...

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, expectation, progress, idea, man

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would...

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.

Quote by Mike Pence about history, atheism, civilization

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