- Experience
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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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- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
- Nov 07, 2020
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020