Eastern Quotes

• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

  Adam Lambert

  Sound, Fans, Elements

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• I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

  Kim Kardashian

  Beautiful, Light, Remember

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• I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

  Hugh Laurie

  Men, Hands, White

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

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• Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Children, Government

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

  Richard P. Bland

  Funny, Strong, Farewell

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• I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Temples, Orthodox

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• Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Travel, Jobs, People

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• People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Government, Land, Knowing

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• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Romance, Kind, Poet

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

  Conrad Burns

  Distance, School, Technology

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• Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Europe, Vienna, Gates

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

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• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  William Labov

  Country, America, Europe

  "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Writing, People

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

  William Shirley

  Way, Weakness, Missionary

  William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”

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• Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Numbers, Fire, Forests

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• Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Russia, Counter Attack, Arms

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• Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Country, Russia, Orthodox

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• The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Country, Gdp, Western Culture

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Agreement, Europe, Broken

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Europe, Today

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• The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Temples, Priests, Orthodox

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• I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Character, Years

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Christian, Work, Gdp

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