Asia Quotes - Page 8

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

  Pope Francis

  Filipino, Outstanding

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• Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

  Jan Morris

  Mind, Quality, Kashmir

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.279, Faber & Faber

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• Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stupid, Piety, Monotonous

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• 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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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, War, America

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.53, The Overlook Press

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• The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Heart, Skins, Disease

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• [On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Blood, Church, Loyal

  Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  Sibling, America, Long

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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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• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Europe, People, Goal

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• It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

  Sadao Araki

  Japan, Sea, World

  "Japan and the Defence of Australia" by Edmund Leolin Piesse, (p. 15), 1935.

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• The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Travel, Traveler

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• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Power, Uganda, Europe

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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• I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.

  Michael Weatherly

  Song, Play, People

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Self, Circles

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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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• 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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