- People
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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
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
- Heavy Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020