People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
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How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
At every stage since World War II, people have assumed that what's happening today will happen forever. Universally, that's been wrong. I… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
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By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped… — Philip Dick Copy Share Image
“In World War II, some Japanese soldiers preferred to take their own lives rather become prisoners of war. In Saipan hundreds of… — Harald Welzer Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my father decided to instill in my two brothers and me his love for the outdoors - a love that he… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
What happened after World War I was disgraceful. Most veterans, like my great-uncle, were squashed back into place. Congress couldn't pass an… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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My father fought behind Japanese lines in the second world war and it traumatised him. Everybody who knew him from before said… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of fighters. My maternal grandfather was the toughest guy I ever knew. World War Two veteran… — Dwight Schrute Copy Share Image
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
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The United States, working closely with the United Kingdom and others, established the liberal world order in the wake of World War… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
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The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
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