- Meetings
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
- Rebellion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.
- Bomber
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.
- Seeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if we are at a war with an enemy country, that country is responsible for our soldiers' deaths.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020