America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds… — John Olver Copy Share Image
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without… — Robert E. Merriam Copy Share Image
“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A CIA report completed in 1968 found similarly: “The war and the bombing have eroded the North Vietnamese economy, making the country… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way… — Ben Askren Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
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'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“his coven’s territory? It made his coven look bad—worse than bad. It made them look defenseless. The entire vampire race would convene… — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
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We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace, Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
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...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
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Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent… — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
Love is a shelter in a raging storm. Love is peace in the middle of a war, and if we try to… — Warren Barfield Copy Share Image
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“When are we going to attack? Why don’t we attack?’ were the questions you heard night and day from Spaniard and Englishman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The hardest war to win is one you don’t even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
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