- Matter
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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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- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
- Condition
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020