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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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- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.
- Looked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like war.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020