- Peace
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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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- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
- Brothers
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- Nov 07, 2020
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
- Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II generals it produced, my junior-high class of 1950 is the class a ton of bricks fell on from Hollywood's gut-wrenching portrayals of mother-love in '40s-era movies.
- Directing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020