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Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special.