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“Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.”

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Author:Amy Lockwood

“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”

Way Trying Ideas Earth Fall Influence Effects Planets Accounts Balls Tables Western Blow Pool Leafs Galaxy Neglected Convergence Pool Table

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.”

Ifs Men Writing Mind Sometimes Philosophy Interesting Events Accounts Western Bias Accused Biased Reviewers Western Philosophy

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.”

Years Country Care Three Process Industry Disease Accounts Western Health Care Diets Plus Quarters Healthcare More Money Lots Of Money Profitable Preventing

Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”

Mind Light Science Night Products Cold Accounts Western Intellect Defeated Classification

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”

Ifs God Science Nations President Education Knowledge Development Labor Accounts Investment Western Nuclear Russia Thanks Faith In God Maintenance Great Power

Author:Zhores Alferov

“[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.”