- Hate
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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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- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020