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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

  Eva Gabor

  Stars, Real, Doors

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• After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Space, Europe

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• Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "Tennis champion Jimmy Connors". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  Boston, Lace, Brahmins

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

  Stephen Hawking

  Time, Moving, Two

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• In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

  Duane Michals

  People, Looks, West

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• One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Middle East, Force, Company

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• I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Believe, Government, Middle East

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

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• East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Illinois, Cities

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

  Jonathan Raban

  Political, Mountain, Lines

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  James Herbert

  Boys, Parent, Catholic

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, East Germany

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

  Tim Cahill

  California, Europe, Wind

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• In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.

  Robert Burchfield

  Mother, Country, America

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• I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Military, War

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• I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

  Ameen Rihani

  Philosophy, Airplane, Tradition

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Kids, People

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• This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

  Richard Cobden

  Government, Directors, India

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.381

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• It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

  James F. Byrnes

  Military, Struggle, People

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  Angie Everhart

  Midwest, Coast, Direct

  "Angie Everhart...she's on fire". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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