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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
- Gravy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020