On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
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Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
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The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Despite its fascist government Greece entered the Second World War on the Allied side because Italy invaded what it thought was a… — Donny Gluckstein Copy Share Image
After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
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For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more… — Arthur Stanley Gould Lee Copy Share Image
The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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“HMS Belfast is a gunship of 11,000 tons, commissioned in 1939, which saw active service in the Second World War. Since then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
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Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
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Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“you see how strangely history repeats itself.Here and now in Bosnia we are seeing images like those of the second world war.… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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