My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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“If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words “heirloom” and “open-pollinated” are… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
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There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“There is life after death, happiness after misery, and the chance to create new memories that replace the old.” — The Doctor’s… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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