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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, india has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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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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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in india, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in india, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"There exists no politician in india daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make india the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." »Mark Twain
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"There is no need to go to india or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." »Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and india by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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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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"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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"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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