What does the following quote mean to say about Western Society?
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I would have to say that many inviduals in Western Societies are very close-minded, and do not concern themselves with issues that do not directly affect them.  When witnessing such events as this, which occured in other countries and to other people, their heart and minds do reach out and sympathize - seeing that it wasn't "one of them".
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'love is a sickness and marriage may cure it, but the side affects are dreadful and possibly not worth living for!'\n\nI claim credit for this one and this is a better more realistic quote! what do you think?
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It's an old English proverb.\n\nIt means if you dress up nice, it will make a better person of you (Clothes make the man, is another such proverb). For eg., if you wear a designer dress/ suit, it will make you look more classy than shabby clothes.\n\nI think the origin was Thomas Hardy's Tess of d'Ubervilles? AM not sure
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To not let school get in the way of my education.  It's actually a quote from Mark Twain, but it was relayed to me by a favorite English professor.  It's important to me because it means, simply, to not let the rigors and requirements of school get in the way of learning, to not get in the way of following what I love.
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These are orinally said by a person, who was very poor in his early days and later became rich.  He build is own college, and managed to speak some English.  These are few lines said by him \n\nAbout his family :\n>--------------------\n>\n>* I have two daughters. Both of them are girls...(?) -> I think this happened in VIT !!\n>\n># At the ground :\n>-----------------\n>\n>* All of you, stand in a straight circle.\n>\n>* There is no wind in the balloon.\n>\n>*The girl with the mirror please come here...{Meaning girl with specs).\n>\n># To a boy, angrily :\n>---------------------\n>\n>* I talk, he talk, why you middle middle talk ?\n>\n># Giving a punishment :\n>-----------------------\n>\n>* You, rotate the ground four times...\n>\n>* You, go and under-stand the tree...\n>\n>* You three of you, stand together separately.\n>\n>* Why are you late - say YES or NO .....(?)\n>\n># Sir at his best :\n>---------------\n>\n>Sir had once gone to a film with his wife. By chance, he happened to see one of our boys at the theatre, though the boy did not see them. So the next day at school... ( to that boy ) - "Yesterday I saw you WITH MY WIFE at the Cinema Theatre"\n>\n>Inside the Class :\n>----------------\n>\n>* Open the doors of the window. Let the atmosphere come in.\n>\n>* Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in.\n>\n>* Cut an apple into two halves - take the bigger half.\n>\n>* Shhh...Quiet, boys...the principal just passed away in the corridor\n>\n>* You, meet me behind the class. (meaning AFTER the class .. )\n>\n>* Both of u three, get out of the class.\n>\n>* Close the doors of the windows please. I have winter in my nose today .\n>\n>* Take Copper Wire of any metal especially of Silver.....\n>\n>* Take 5 cm wire of any length....\n>\n>********************\n>\n> Once he had come late to a college function, by the time the function had started, so he went to the dais, and said, sorry i am late, because on the way my car hit 2 muttons (Meaning goats).\n>\n>This is the way his english will be but let me tell u some of the dialogues heard during the college day 2001 -\n>"This college strict u the worry no ... u get good marks, i the happy, tomorrow u get good job, i am  the happy, tomorrow u marry i enjoy"\n>\n>st joseph freshyears day 2003 -\n>\n>"No ragging this college. anybody rag we arrest the police.\n\nHope i get 10 points
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Each society has their own value system. And to each of us it looks strange of the other society. That is where a very important word and belief comes in. It is called tolerence!
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That is a quote from Mark Twain. The full text of that quote is as follows:\n\n"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."\n\nI think it holds true it most cases.
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you didn't give us enough of the quote to know what it's about. What is the entire quotation and what is the context?
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First of all, it's an allegory to the fall of Russia, not an alliteration. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. As for what Orwell is saying, the story is about communism. In communism, the individual makes sacrifices for the society; rather than working for his own good, he works for the good of everyone, and takes no more than his fair share. The hard-working horse (I forgot his name) does everything he can for the society, and gives all he can. Going the other way, society has an obligation to keep each individual at an equal standard of living - nobody is lower than anybody else.
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I can't remember where the quote is from, but I agree with it entirely.  It means "no holds barred", in a way, and I find it true in love and war.  It's sad to say that's true in love, but, experience tells me it is true, and our culture supports it entirely.  Our international bodies try to make it untrue in war, such as in the Geneva Convention, but, war is hell everything's "fair" in hell, so . . ..  God Bless you.
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I don't know. It's in the "bushisms" book, available at your local library (they really do have it). Then you can read the quote in context. You will better understand the quote when you better understand what he 'meant to say'. Oh well, he's got two more years to work on making a comprehensible sentance.
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"having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people"\n\nIt means avoid and exclude people who aren't morally superior like you.\n\nKind of inflates ones head, huh?
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1) This was Socrates, and he made this statement at his trial.  (Read the "Apology" by Plato.  Or take my word for it.)  What he meant was something like, "If we just go through life never asking why, what's the point?"  He believed that to truly find "the good life" we need to be willing to ask hard questions and come to know the truth.\n\n2)  This is another statement that leads toward the same basic idea.  The speaker (I can't remember who said this one off the top of my head) is suggesting that we cannot be successful until we come to know who we really are--why we do what we do.  So examining one's self is the first step that we must take if we are to live successful lives.
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Just like Orwell wrote;\n\nWAR IS PEACE\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH\n\nBig Brother is alive and watching you.\n(and I don't mean that bloke in the clouds, bloody Christians).
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My guess is that it has been used extensively by many. It is commonly an introduction to something else the speaker wants to say. For instance: "I have traveled far and wide, still, human nature is pretty much the same wherever I go."\n\nA favorite travel quotation: "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."\n--George Moore, The Brook Kerith (1916)
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What he meant is that people around the world are UNCONCERNED. We all know that there will are evil people who will do evil deeds. But what are we going to do about it? The world is dangerous because people are unconcerned about these things.\n\nHe is persuading us TO CARE and BE COCERNED about what is happening around us and DO THE RIGHT THING.
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“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.” -Mahatma Gandhi.\n\n“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” -Jawaharlal Nehru.\n\n“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.” - Seneca.\n\n“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved” -  Andre Malraux.