- 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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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
- Depiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020