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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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"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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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"It is the great north wind that made the Vikings." »Scandinavian Proverb
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"In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"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
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"If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)" »Ronald Reagan
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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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"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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"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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"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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"But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare
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"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
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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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"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
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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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"If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of North Korea...)
read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540" »Dan Flikweert
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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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"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
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"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
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