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- Nov 07, 2020
First World Quotes
History remembered through family and fiction alike.
This set draws on personal and historical memory, from a family member's wartime service to the turmoil a defeated generation faced afterward, see First World War quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
- East Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
- Fantasy World
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020