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• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
  Star of the east the horizon adorning,
  Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

  Reginald Heber

  Morning, Stars, Son

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17

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• I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Book, Reading, Stories

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• After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

  Lawrence Klein

  Country, Japan, Osaka

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• I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Long, Middle East, United States

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• It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

  Angela Merkel

  Inspirational, Issues, Important

  "'I Am Immune to the Seduction of Power'". Interview with Ralf Neukirch, Gabor Steingart and Stefan Aust, www.spiegel.de. October 17, 2005.

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• What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

  Charles Kuralt

  Dog, Southern, Jugs

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, President, Middle East

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• The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

  Henri Pirenne

  Unity, Islam, Finals

  Henri Pirenne (2013). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Routledge

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• The world is sphere, has no East or West.

  Ai Weiwei

  World, West, Spheres

  "No Fake: An Interview with Ai Weiwei". Interview with Alex Rauch, www.portlandart.net. August 09, 2010.

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• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

  Silvan Shalom

  Easter, Democracy, Middle East

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Destiny, Israel, Middle East

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• If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

  Jamal Lewis

  West, Happenings, Ifs

  "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

  Elif Safak

  Army, Past, Hands

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• Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

  Elif Safak

  Bridges, Cities, Appreciate

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• To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Gun, Middle East, Achieve

  "10 Questions for Queen Rania". Interview with Time Magazine readers, content.time.com. May 10, 2007.

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• Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Home, Trying, Attention

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1964). “State o' Maine”

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• It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, Middle East, Towns

  "Angelina Jolie Writes NYT Op-Ed on Visiting Syria and Iraq: "Nothing Prepares You". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, Israel, Middle East

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• The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Middle East, Rising

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• Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

  Maz Jobrani

  Motivation, Inspiration, Laughing

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• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

  Neil MacGregor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Voice

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• Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

  Knute Nelson

  Lying, Land, Tongue

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• The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

  Abdus Salam

  Heritage, West, Physics

  Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.16, World Scientific

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