Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy.… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Now listen here, I’m not gay. I’m as far from gay as you can possibly get - be-hee-hee-lieve me on that one!… — Danger Slater Copy Share Image
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Tonight, no one will rage and cry: "My Kingdom for a horse!" No ghost will come to haunt the battlements of a… — Michel Tremblay Copy Share Image
“The casting of the brash United States Army Air Force officer Colonel Robert E. Hogan and the pompous German Luftwaffe officer Colonel… — Carol M. Ford Copy Share Image
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“Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the… — Steve Silberman Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Chinese Communist Party leaders are students of history, and they recognize America's arsenal of democracy all but ensured America's triumph in the… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there.… — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
In so many ways, World War II was one of the lowest lows imaginable, yet some of my most treasured memories come… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
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After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — Rebecca Traister 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
In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
“Dear Artie: “The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris… — John Pearce Copy Share Image
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably… — Tony Judt 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
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
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