"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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"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."
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"The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer."
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"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east."
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"I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness."
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"Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south."
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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
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"But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near."
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"Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living."
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"If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening"
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"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."
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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
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"If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay."
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"A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative."
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"Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East."
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"The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed."
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