- Human
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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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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Biggie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go out and play or go to school. Boredom was a big part of my life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020