- God
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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020