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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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"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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"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 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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"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee
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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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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot." »Mitchell Burgess
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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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"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 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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"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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"In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs." »Weekend Update
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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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"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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"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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"The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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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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"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)" »Oscar Hammerstein, II
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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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"In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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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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"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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