- Peace
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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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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020