- 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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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government, unlike me, fiercely opposed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
- Bid
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020