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Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

~David Hewson

Topics: Around Buildings Compact East High Lie Mainly Old Principal Rather River Set Side Sights Street Village

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East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

~David Hockney

Topics: Caused Does East Glaciers Hills Just Like Little Looks Lot Marvelous Rivers Unusual Valleys Were Yorkshire

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Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Appreciated Boom Bought Cards Chance Course Crumble Each East End Estate Eventually Everything Harlem House House Of Cards Main New New York People Place Real Real Estate Sale Sold Took Where Would York

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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

~David Mamet

Topics: About American Ball East Football Goal Land Line Move Native Native Americans Opponent Putting Resemble Scores Seems Settlers Soccer Through Truly Want Westward

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The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.

~David Miliband

Topics: Being Biggest Bombed Both Conflict Dangerous Disaster East Getting International Iran Long Middle Middle East Nuclear Nuclear Weapon Security Stop Threats Two Unstable Weapon Would

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We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.

~David Miliband

Topics: East Justice Know Middle Middle East Palestinian Palestinian State Security State Without

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The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

~David Miliband

Topics: Alone Change Christian Climate Climate Change Coalition East Faces Jew Just Muslim Need Nuclear Problems Proliferation West World

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In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.

~David Milne

Topics: Abroad Activities Company Development East Engineering Even Expect Far Majority Moving Our Perhaps Sales Some Strengthen Terms Vast Vast Majority Will

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People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Asian Asians Being Believe Codes East Europeans Expressed Expressive General Get Japanese Just Like Me Message Often Ok Particular People Say Term Very

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I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Afghanistan Bosnia British Cold Cold War East Europe Forces Greater Had Iraq Middle Middle East Privilege Serving Uniform War

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