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• The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to… — Martha Beck
• I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic… — Benazir Bhutto
• Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in… — Benazir Bhutto
• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular… — Earl Blumenauer
• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy… — Norman Borlaug
• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places… — Anthony Bourdain
• Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole… — Anthony Bourdain
• Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment… — Anthony Bourdain
• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies… — David Cameron
• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? — Fidel Castro
• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie… — Jackie Chan

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