Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist."
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William Goldman
Screenwriter, Novelist
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be."
Kevin B. Rollins
Business Executive
"Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia."
Barack Obama
Politician
"For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades."
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"Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience."
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"Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me."
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"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
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"I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia."
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"Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has paid reparations and so on. Japan, in contrast, apologizes for nothing and has paid no reparations, with one exception: It pays reparations to the United States, but not to Asia."
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"This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia."
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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."
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"Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia."
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"Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety."
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"That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written."
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"If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day."
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"Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia."
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"There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves."
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