- Games
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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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- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the fact that there are so few Russians in Hollywood, but it is understandable because of the historic relationship between America and Russia - the Cold War history, for example. It is kind of a cliche, but it's still with us.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
- Korean War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
- Paparazzi
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't go to war with paparazzi.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
- Decree
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- Nov 07, 2020