- Corruption
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at me as a man who performed works musically. Who uplift people who need upliftment, mentally, physically, economically - all forms. Who told the people to live with love 'cause only love can conquer war, and to understand themselves so that they can understand others.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020