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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

- Abdallah II

source: "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.

topic: East, Culture, West, East And West

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

- Abdus Salam

source: Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.16, World Scientific

topic: East, Heritage, West, East And West, North And South

I am definitely a west London girl.

- Amelia Warner

source: "Starlet Fever" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2005.

topic: Girl, London, West

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

- Anna Funder

source: Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.96, Granta Books

topic: East, West, Drank

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

- Brad Paisley

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Virginia, West, Hillbilly, West Virginia

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

- Brother Yun

source: Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2008). “Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man”, p.177, Harper Collins

topic: Christian, West, Abundance, Material Possessions

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

- Buffalo Bill

source: Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.110, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Men, Roaming, West, Gallant

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

- Buffalo Bill

source: Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

topic: Effort, West

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

- Charles Marion Russell

source: Charles Marion Russell (1966). “Good medicine: the illustrated letters of Charles M. Russell”

topic: May, West, Forget

We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

- Chittaranjan Das

source: "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.

topic: Destiny, Individuality, West

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

- Cyril Smith

source: On the House of Commons, in 'Big Cyril' (1977) ch. 8

topic: Running, Farce, West, West End

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

- David Puttnam

source: "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

topic: Media, Corporations, West, Moguls, Public Discourse

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

- Diane Abbott

source: "Diane Abbott: I sent my son to private school so he wouldn't end up in a gang". www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2010.

topic: Children, Wall, West

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

- Edouard Glissant

source: Édouard Glissant (1989). “Caribbean discourse: selected essays”, Caraf Books

topic: West, Projects

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

- George Ayittey

source: "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

topic: West, Economic, Individual, Extended Family

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

- Jamal Lewis

source: "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

topic: East, West, East And West

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

- Jessica Day George

source: Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Easter, East, West

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

- Joe Manchin

source: "In maiden speech, Manchin steers towards center" by Josiah Ryan, thehill.com. February 3, 2011.

topic: Play, West, Energy, Virginians

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

- John George Nicolay

source: John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

topic: Law, West, Distinction

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

- John Woolman

source: John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.51, Boston : J.R. Osgood

topic: Years, West, Jersey, County

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

- Kishore Mahbubani

source: "The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World". Book by Kishore Mahbubani, February 05, 2013.

topic: World, Asia, West

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

- Kwame Nkrumah

source: Kwame Nkrumah (1972*). “Selected Speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: First President of the Republic of Ghana”

topic: East, West, Faces

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

- Lafcadio Hearn

source: Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

topic: Literature, West, Ethical, Contemporary Literature

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

- Liu Xiaobo

source: Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press

topic: Humanity, West, Natural

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

- Marian McPartland

source: "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

topic: New York, West, Coast, Rhythm Section

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

- Niall Ferguson

source: "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.

topic: Taken, Today, West, Disrespected

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

- Rae Armantrout

source: Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.97, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Bird, West, Gestures

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

- Ralph Peters

source: Ralph Peters (2001). “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?”, p.13, Stackpole Books

topic: Hatred, West, Underestimate

East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth!

- Richard Hovey

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

topic: Fate, West, Necks, Reins

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