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In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. Henning Mankell
Time World Listening Lost Else Guiding Constant Seems Chatter No-One Principle Been Western Western World Listen Africa Where Anyone Anyone Else Even Desire
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. Henry Flynt
Culture Drive Extreme Carried Objectification Dirt Point Part Almost Towards Subject Western Western Culture Human Where Which Whole Works Serious Watch Treated
Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure. Henry Paulson
Strong Leader Looking Changes Follow He Make Sure Lot Western Ambitious Very Model China Who Based Suffrage Universal Universal Suffrage
There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe. Herman Gorter
Enormous Russia Between Western Western Europe Difference Europe
Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works. Herman Gorter
You Judge Draw Able Only Tactics Failed Know Well Course Conclusions Am Least Western Western Europe Difference As Far As Far Your Europe Works
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment! Herman Gorter
Judge Papers Out Magazines Western Western Europe Revolt Any Break Public Poor Might Poor Peasants Communist Moment Europe Even Peasants
It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line. Hideaki Itsuno
Tough Line Western Wanted Blur Japanese Games
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. Hilton Als
Art History Way Find Some Make Ideological Western Very Artists The History Of Hard Who
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock. Howard Carter
Work Slope Thus Over Partly Rock Western End Cutting Found
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death. Howard Hawks
Death Gun Drama Simplest Western Form
It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture. Howard Hawks
You Picture Think Him Ford Making Western Jack Any Hard
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. Hu Shih
Strange People First Changes Tools Ways Unavoidable Brought Contact Vehicles New Days Goods Western Commerce Beginnings China Chinese Social Chinese People Social Changes Novel Early
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state. Huey Lewis
Family Sports First State Montana Released Part Bought Soon Piece County Years Western Began After Land Four
I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. Hugh Laurie
You Three Medicine Would Three-Quarters Stuck Without Always Quarters Chew Western Antibiotics Up Celery Want Us Here
A lot of people have ridiculous misconceptions about diet and workout routines. It is not about exotic greens and workouts from the western world. It is about what works for you the best. Huma Qureshi
Best You People World About Misconceptions Lot Western Exotic Western World Greens Diet Workout Workouts Works Ridiculous Routines
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules. Huston Smith
History Society Rules Those Ours Rigid Religions Propensity More Only Almost Buddhism Most Forbid Forbidden Known Hinduism Permissive Western Up Than The Only Thing Asia Asian Notion Teachers Now Ever Play Thing Progeny
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. I. M. Pei
Life Me Architecture Seventeen Seventeen Years Background Say Studied Came Years Western America Formative Technical
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. I. M. Pei
Family Architecture Sense Architect Never Been Years Western Left Any China Chinese
The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing. Imran Amed
Fashion Power Changing States Structures Limited Western Western Europe Used Europe
Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England. Isabella Bird
Fruit Seen Difficult States Find Thrown Highly Pigs Understand How Western Southern Prized American Grapes England Grown Damaged
Once the Third World has become a mass market for the goods, products, and processes which are designed by the rich for themselves, the discrepancy between demand for these Western artifacts and the supply will increase indefinitely. Ivan Illich
World Will Become Rich Increase Market Once Indefinitely Supply Between Demand Mass Mass Market Goods Western Discrepancy Which Processes Themselves Products Designed Third Third World
Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls. J. B. Bickerstaff
Walk Job Face Year Finals Jobs Perennial Got Balls Western Lottery Normally Get Just Middle Coaches Team Assistant Playing Two
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area. J. G. Ballard
November Club Avenue Gatherings Waterfront Meetings Embassy City Born Magical General Various Area Hospital Shanghai Glamorous French Were Western Patriotic Place Suburbs Race Amherst Lived British
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. Jack Adams
Carrier About Hawaiian Force Around Island Islands Built Led Chicago Western End Task Task Force December Midway Harbor Miles Pearl Pearl Harbor Lexington
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent. Jack Keane
Radical Way East Through Islamists Spread Continent South South Asia Western Africa Middle Middle East Asia
Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. Jacob Weisberg
Politics Government Freedom Religion Welfare Christianity Conservatism State Draws Embraces Hates Individual Individual Freedom Welfare State Accepts Mixing Western Southern Moderate Modern Dislikes Racial Evangelical Populist Plays
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