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"For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle east in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle east as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." »George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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"There is always something new out of africa." »Pliny the Elder
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"For africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." »Maya Angelou
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"Reminds me of my safari in africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." »W. C. Fields
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"The drums of africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth." »Mary McLeod Bethune
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"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating." »Alan Stewart Paton
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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"I have become a queer mixture of the east and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question." »Victor Hugo
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"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." »James Russell Lowell
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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." »James Russell Lowell
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"But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare
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"We know that this mad dog of the Middle east has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)" »Ronald Reagan
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"West is too materialist; east is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle east that has no oil" »Golda Meir
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"You can't make war in the Middle east without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining east and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts." »Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle east peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"China and africa have strong growing relationship; as China continues to grow, we will see the Chinese offer more infrastructure development to African governments in return for natural resources and farmland to support its vast population. It is a natural and mutually beneficial relationship." »Med Jones
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"The sun rises from the two places: From the east and also from where the Science rises!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is an undercurrent of cultural changes in the Middle east region driven by the globalization of media and the Internet. Smart leaders will anticipate these changes and initiate gradual democratic reforms to avoid political instability and economic problems." »Med Jones
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"Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle east conflicts do not last a long time." »Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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"Sustainable prosperity and stability of the nations in the Middle east cannot be realized without re-engineering their state models to more open socioeconomic systems allowing equal access to national resources and opportunities instead of the current closed systems based on tribal, ethnic, and religious quotas" »Med Jones
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"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones
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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or east Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." »George Orwell
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the east to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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