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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

True, Minds, Sky

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Strength, Character

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi

Union, Force, Welcome

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Art, Tell, Water

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Tupac Shakur

God, Death, Row

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Nelson Mandela

Thinking, Both, West

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama

Middle, Issue, Region

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir

Through, Tell, Against

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
Hillary Clinton

Peace, Between, Last

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger

Peace, War, Middle

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, May, Word

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Country, Friends, America

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, True, Problems

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
P. J. O'Rourke

Best, Despair, Middle

If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Put, Wind

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

Times, Started, Policy

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West

Mistakes, Others, Forgive

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Kwame Nkrumah

Forward, Face, Nor

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James

Football, Team, Knew

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg

Work, Art, Today

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
John Hoeven

Great, Today, Country

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
Gary Johnson

Time, War, Angry

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Christopher Hitchens

War, Making, Willing

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
King Abdullah II

Democracy, Rest, Muslim

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
Jerry Saltz

Problems, Water, Ocean

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.
William Shatner

Work, Hard, Find

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Same, Ship, West

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
Jimmy Carter

Morning, Tired, Past

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