#west

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fewest #human #individual #lives #people

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#almost #any #below #country #die

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#between #cultivates #difference #former #forms

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

#difficulty #eastern #exactly #kind #poet

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

#east #fairy #fairy tales #folklore #known

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#city #culture #food #go #iowa

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#far #germany #know #korea #north

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#degree #earned #i #level #lowest

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum. ↗

— John Elway

#appreciate #both #ends #experienced #highest

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#been #celebrate #century #community #east