Eastern Quotes - Page 2

• Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Travel, Jobs, People

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• People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Government, Land, Knowing

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• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Romance, Kind, Poet

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Europe, Today

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• Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Europe, Vienna, Gates

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

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• Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Europe, Eastern Europe

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• The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Truth, Philosophy

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• If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Wise, Men

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Joe Slovo

  Party, Government, Europe

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• There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Eastern Europe, Myth

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• The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Heart, Literature, Tradition

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• However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

  John Polkinghorne

  Church, Christ, Creation

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  Ed Bradley

  Father, Shopping, Watches

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• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Montel Williams

  Black And White, Thinking, Europe

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview,

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• The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

  Cat Stevens

  Names, People, Hatred

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Philosophy, Role Models

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• As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Men, Rights, Granted

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• I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, North Carolina, Stories

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

  Loretta Lynn

  Growing Up, Gun, Kentucky

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• I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

  Tony Campolo

  Commitment, Cities, Special

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• Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

  Jim Clyburn

  Independent, Years, Oil

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

  Jerry Falwell

  Islamic, Monsters, World

  "Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell". "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, archive.commondreams.org. September 13, 2001.

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Leadership, Party, Europe

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