' What you do is have a continuing dialogue with nature.

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While publicly cordial, the two largest economies of the world do not have a meaningful dialogue with respect to any of the important issues facing the world.

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As far as the story is concerned, dialogue can do in a handful of words what might otherwise take a paragraph.

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"What we want to do is just begin to open up a dialogue around which we can constructively work together to deal with significant issues, " he said, according to the DawnNews Web site.

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What we do share is a commitment to resolve these issues through dialogue and negotiations, as opposed to through violence.

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Until they do, it will be very difficult for the United States to have a constructive dialogue and healthy relationship with China.

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Those who want a dialogue with the West say it will be far easier to do so under the umbrella of the region's Islamist regimes, with whom the Obama administration is now engaged, than via the Palestinian Authority over which Mr Abbas presides in the West Bank.

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"As hard as it may be, there must be an end to the violence, and the Israelis and Palestinians must find a way out of confrontation and back to the path of peaceful dialogue, and they must do it sooner rather than later, " the president said.

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"The big thing U.S. could do is change its Cuba policy, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, D.

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If we do not defend diversity of cultures, then it makes no sense to speak of dialogue because that will be a dialogue of the deaf.

UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)