Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it;… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances.… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill 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
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from… — Tunku Abdul Rahman Copy Share Image
NATO was formed post-World War II. We're a little bit more than a half-century old. Do we want NATO to go on… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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