- Firsthand
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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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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.
- Looting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every war, there's looting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.
- Fiat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020