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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

True, Minds, Sky

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi

Union, Force, Welcome

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Art, Tell, Water

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Nelson Mandela

Thinking, Both, East

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl

Liberty, Coast, Statue

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Youth, Modern

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Warren Buffett

Good, Why, Said

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling

After, Old, She

If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

Times, Started, Policy

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Tommy Douglas

Old, Imagine, Canada

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali

Human, Nation, Natural

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

Game, Mean, Big

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Kwame Nkrumah

Forward, Face, Nor

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remember, Talk, Less

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien

Trouble, Police, Yesterday

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam, Democracy, Trying

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
Paris Hilton

Love, Great, Both

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
Dave Barry

Try, Place, Looking

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, While

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Art, Between

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Art, Moment

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Same, Ship, East

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, Human, Rights

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux

Islam, Woman, China

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Adam Sandler

Mom, Sleep, Put

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight

Winning, Career, Times

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Robert Plant

Music, Dark, American

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi

War, Stupid, Real

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Before, Sun, Against

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