- 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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020