- 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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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have voted for the war in Iraq, which has cost us trillions we could have been spending on a carbon-free economy, affordable college, and single-payer health care.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.
- Great Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that Chris Evans is getting for his performance as Captain America.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we make a movie, 'Guardians' included, 'Black Panther' included, 'Infinity War' included, we just feel lucky to be making that movie, and that's basically what the focus is on.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020