East Quotes - Page 28

• I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

  Paul Bremer

  Change, Middle East, Constitution

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• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

  Christopher Columbus

  Land, Gone, Should

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.10

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Marine, Scotland

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

  Frederick Buechner

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.24, Zondervan

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• Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

  Geraldo Rivera

  Reality, Israel, Expansion

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• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, America, Inability

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• In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Strong, Voice, Steel

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

  Helen Thomas

  Regret, Party, Heart

  "Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  Hans Blix

  Thinking, Together, Middle East

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• While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Destiny, America, People

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• Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  Kenny Marchant

  Years, Kuwait, Iraq

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• The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

  Kenny Marchant

  Oil, Issues, Energy

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• Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

  Willy Russell

  Middle East, Middle, Solutions

  Willy Russell (2014). “Shirley Valentine & One For The Road”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Girl, Easter, Hate

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• The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

  Russ Carnahan

  Easter, Middle East, Cannons

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• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Joanna Newsom

  Easter, Islands, San Francisco

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

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• Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

  Chris Chocola

  Easter, Iraq, Democracy

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Ocean, Moving

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• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  Daniel De Leon

  Change, Morning, Doe

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• I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

  Jalal Talabani

  Change, Believe, Iraq

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• The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

  Heinrich Himmler

  Lying, Eyebrows, Two

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• Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Rights, Achievement, Middle East

  "EU3 pushing incentives plan for Iran". www.cnn.com. May 10, 2006.

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• Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

  Richard Leakey

  West, Happened, North Africa

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• If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  F. William Engdahl

  Oil, Iraq, Office

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