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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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- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see this nation united as opposed to divided. I don't want to see a race war as Donald Trump does.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
- Nov 07, 2020
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
- Fishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
- Nov 07, 2020