- 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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
- Good Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
- Christianity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'
- Edwardian
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- Nov 07, 2020