"The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West."
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"It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically."
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"I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east."
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"There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west."
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"I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it."
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"The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace."
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"The West to me is where the landscape is."
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"Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely."
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"I'm world-famous in West Bromwich."
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"From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless."
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"The West Bank is essentially imprisoned."
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"The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five should be directed to Palestine - not allowed to go to the West."
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"I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]"
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"The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain."
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"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling."
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"To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box."
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"Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook."
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"I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband."
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"In Christ there is no East nor West."
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"I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically."
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