- Game
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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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- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
- Global War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020