- Desert
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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
- Deter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
- Border
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
- Nov 07, 2020
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
- Plague
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020