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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
- Locked
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- Nov 07, 2020
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020