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• And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Eye, Men

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• The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

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• O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
  How dear Thy Grace has grown!
  From east to west, with loving power,
  Make all the world Thine own.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Flower, Grace

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• Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

  David Hackworth

  Islamic, Middle East, World

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• Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

  Michael Dorris

  Sleep, Ideas, Grandparent

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”

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• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  Ville Valo

  Running, Redneck, West Coast

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• Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Iraq, People

  "James Foley on the Dehumanization of War: Acclaimed Filmmaker Haskell Wexler Shares 2012 Interview". www.democracynow.org. September 12, 2014.

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• A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Sunset, Clouds

  John Steinbeck (1997). “The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.

  Gerald Gardner

  Believe, Past, People

  Gerald Gardner (2004). “The Meaning of Witchcraft”, p.3, Weiser Books

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• I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.

  Joe Scarborough

  Mother, Daughter, New York

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• It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

  King Hussein I

  Religious, Teaching, Religion

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• I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations on the unification of East and West Germany... some nations that were then and are now Germany's allies did not support the idea of unification. Our nation, however, unequivocally supported the sincere, unstoppable desire of the Germans for national unity. I am confident that you have not forgotten this, and I expect that the citizens of Germany will also support the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Russia

  Address by President of the Russian Federation, en.kremlin.ru. March 18, 2014.

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• Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

  Gordon Cooper

  Europe, Two, Flying

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.

  Kristen Johnston

  Love, Dream, New York

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• I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.

  Tom Hardy

  Latin, School, Who I Am

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

  Shelby Foote

  Men, West, Compass

  Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, p.128, Vintage

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• The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Country, War, Oil

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• Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

  Pat Boone

  Teacher, People, Millions

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

  Ron Silver

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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• I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

  Andrew Rannells

  People, Village, Williamsburg

  "Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells on Slapping, Stripping & His New TV Show". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Easter, Italian, Thinking

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• Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.

  Bob Simon

  Wall, Army, Day Care

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• Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

  Roddy McDowall

  Easter, New York, Television

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