| "It is the great north wind that made the Vikings." »Scandinavian Proverb |
| "I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru |
| "My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua |
| "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 |
| "But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare |
| "I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry |
| "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." »Confucius |
| "We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis |
| "You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "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 |
| "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract." »Robin Green |
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