During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time… — Yoko Ono 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
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
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 history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks 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
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only… — Jeremy Clarkson 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
What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus...… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought… — Rose Pastor Stokes 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
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs 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
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
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
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise… — Ernest Hemingway 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
In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
America is always fighting. We're the one that wants to go to World War III with Russia over Ukraine. So we're the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
![“As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.” quote by Viggo Mortensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b3/viggo-mortensen-1554_analogies_as-john-tolkien-himself-said-the-story-l_2290212.jpg)
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