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I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Although Ancestors Both Create Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Lived Never Poland Russia Scenes See Wife I Can

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More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

~Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Topics: Artificial Central Chapter Close Communist Dark Division Eastern Eastern Europe Europe European Forty Forty Years History More Now Opportunity Resulted Rule Than Unhappy Years

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Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

~Angela Merkel

Topics: Also Central Cold Cold War Courage Decades Democratic Democratic Republic Eastern Eastern Europe Europe German Had Hope Integration Long Lost Many Over Overcoming Partner People Republic Required Steadfastness Then Two War Western

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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Also Applaud Britain Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Labour Labour Party Leadership Millions Millions Of People Need Party People Philippines Produce Quite Streets Trade Trade Union Trouble Understanding Union Willing Without

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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Also American City Community Divided East Eastern Eastern Europe Ethnic Europe Instability Know Man Marked Middle Middle East Missouri Notice Our Own Racial Small Summer Tensions Took Where World Yes Young Young Man

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I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

~Bonnie Jo Campbell

Topics: Balkans Been Behind Bicycle Circus Done Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Food Key Led Lived Newspaper Oh Russia Serving Sort Things Tours Train Worked

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Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.

~Carole King

Topics: Been Born City Did Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Grandparents Had Instead Jewish Might New New York New York City War World World War World War Ii York I Was Born

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My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Born Camp Concentration Dad Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Family Germany Ghetto He His Located Old Sent Separated Soon Started War Were Years

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My family's from Eastern Europe.

~David Sax

Topics: Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Family

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'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

~Dean Devlin

Topics: Another Based Boston Chicago Eastern Eastern Europe Episode Europe Florida Leverage Meant Meant To Be New New York Then York

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