Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish."
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George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."
Ice T
Rapper, Actor
"I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up."
Mickey Cohen
Gangster
"I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god."
Paul Walker
Actor
"Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?"
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"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
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"Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine."
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"From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour."
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"The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east."
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"I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast."
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"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news."
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"Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ."
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"It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind."
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"Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation."
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"If you want to go east, don't go west."
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"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."
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"It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced."
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"Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution."
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"The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East."
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"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
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"In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is."
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"If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos."
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"You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business."
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"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless."
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"There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east."
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