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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is I'm a very traditional woman, and Rod - despite everything people may think - is a very traditional man. It's true he absolutely loves glamour, and he hasn't got a conventional job, but performing aside, he's happiest at home with his kids around him or lounging in front of the fire watching a war documentary like 'D-Day Remembered.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
- Environmental Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020