Asia Quotes - Page 4

• İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Beautiful, Istanbul, Europe

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• Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.

  Robert Cailliau

  Europe, Law, Differences

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• The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Land, United States, Firsts

  Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Medical

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• Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

  Randy Newman

  Europe, Names, America

  Song: Political Science

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• I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Moving, Thinking

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• China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  Hu Jintao

  Issues, Peaceful, Nuclear

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, Thinking, Japan

  "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

  Pope Francis

  Filipino, Outstanding

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• So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, Europe, Civilization

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• We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami

  Mary Landrieu

  Children, Believe, Would Be

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• The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

  Kim Il-sung

  Latin, Struggle, America

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  Park Geun-hye

  Perception, Trying, East

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• For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel.

  John Vockler

  Christian, Block, Real

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• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

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• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Latin, Russia

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• Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Animal, Europe, America

  Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

  Robert S Ellwood

  Spiritual, Writing, Organization

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• The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

  Dean Acheson

  Running, War, Japan

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Civilization, Knowing

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• If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, America, Citizens

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Opportunity, India, Economic

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