- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
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- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.
- Manipulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020