"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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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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"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
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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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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South."
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"The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed."
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"And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff."
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"What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront."
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"The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well."
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"Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West."
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"Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West."
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"I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved"
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"I went to college. West Point is technically a college."
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"Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can."
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"In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony."
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"We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs."
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"Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end."
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