Asia Quotes - Page 6

• Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

  Daniel Pipes

  Country, Law, Wish

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• The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.

  Morris Graves

  Art, Journey, Men

  "Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir". Published by University of Washington Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

  Geoff Downes

  Unique, Thinking, Years

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• Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

  Rick Levin

  Zero, Games, Benefits

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• England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

  Karl Marx

  Idols, Skulls, Progress

  "The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.

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• Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Europe, Russia, Would Be

  "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

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• All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Player, People

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• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, People, Philippines

  Imelda Marcos' remarks at a press conference in Bloomingdale's at the opening of the Philippine exhibit, "Katipunan Magazine", May 1982.

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• At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.113, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

  Enoch Powell

  Eye, Race, Land

  "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.

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• The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .

  Isaac Newton

  Egypt, Wind, Broken

  Sir Isaac Newton (1999). “Isaac Newton's Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John: A Critical Edition”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Slave

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

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• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

  Plutarch

  Europe, Triumph, Three

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives -”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Two, Earth

  Plutarch (1881). “Essays”

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• In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Grateful, Years

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• According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The good news: Maybe all those jobs that went over there will finally come back.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Years, Together

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• Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Order, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  Bertrand Russell

  New York, Past, Chicago

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.555, Psychology Press

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• I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

  Jeb Bush

  Years, Four

  "6 Cringeworthy Moments in Jeb Bush's Foreign Policy Speech" by Zack Beauchamp, www.vox.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Japan, People

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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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• What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that
  capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially
  available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the
  Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth
  process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers
  capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided
  that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Country, Block, Europe

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Tree, Decay, World

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Suicide, Gun, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  Leon Panetta

  Prosperity, Century, Regions

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