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• The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

  Kallistos Ware

  Educational, Loss, Men

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• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

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• I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

  Rand Paul

  Teaching, Thinking, Hatred

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

  Anjem Choudary

  Responsibility, Expression, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

  Wangari Maathai

  Crazy, Men, Easy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

  John Cleese

  Bikinis, Arabia, Different

  "'Satire Makes People Think'". Interview with Christoph Scheuermann and Barbara Supp, www.spiegel.de. March 30, 2015.

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• The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  East, Teach, Shows

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• The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

  Mohammed Emami-Kashani

  Country, Islamic, Outcomes

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.

  Anna Kendrick

  Crazy, Humble, Humility

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014

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• Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

  Hilarie Burton

  Growing Up, Adventure, Virginia

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• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  Vivien Leigh

  Morning, Stupid, Responsibility

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• I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

  Wesley Snipes

  Beautiful, Want, Contradiction

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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• 'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

  John Woo

  Lasts, Hong Kong, Film

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

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• Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Kids, Dust, Wings

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• Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

  Sam Trammell

  Kids, Virginia, Years

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• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  Molly Ringwald

  Father, Years, Trying

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• I am definitely a west London girl.

  Amelia Warner

  Girl, London

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

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• If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

  Kanye West

  Fans, Ifs

  "Kanye West weeps in Zane Lowe interview, then apologises to Beck on Twitter" by Ashley Clark, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

  David Lynch

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• 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

  Destiny, Individuality, Lines

  "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.

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• The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

  Abby Sunderland

  Running, Eye, Wind

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.

  Susan Moody

  Europe, Cities, Istanbul

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Way, Sun, Bodhisattva

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

  Tessa Thompson

  East, West Coast, Splits

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

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