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The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
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The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of… — Kim Young-sam Copy Share Image
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
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'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
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I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
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