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  • In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

  • Some in the West apparently believe that Poland no longer has its own interests, and that it is all too willing to agree with the opinions of others. This is absolutely not the case. Indeed, other countries in Europe uphold their own interests with great determination.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

    Eight   Years   Law  
    "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.
  • I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

    Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com
  • The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

    Brother   Men   Iron  
  • To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

    Mean   Doctors   Car  
  • Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

  • Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

    Moving   Doctors   Ebola  
  • There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

    Moving   Migration   West  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

    Stars   Animal   Cities  
  • Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

    Running   Order   Land  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.

    Destiny   Men   Thinking  
  • Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

  • Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

    Nature   Islands   Pieces  
    Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.120, Ballantine Books
  • I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

    Play   Energy   Roles  
    "In maiden speech, Manchin steers towards center" by Josiah Ryan, thehill.com. February 3, 2011.
  • Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

  • Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

    "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.
  • The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

    Stuff   West   Knows  
    Source: earstyle.net
  • We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

    Class   Broken   Want  
  • This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

    Country   West   Legacy  
  • 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.

    "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
  • The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

    War   Reality   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications.

  • Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

  • Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

  • It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

    Thinking   Mind   East  
  • A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

    Eye   Order   Water  
    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011
  • Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

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