- Expressed
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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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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'
- Terrorism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.
- Periods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
- American Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.
- Nov 07, 2020
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020