“At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight… — Scott Patterson 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
Our ambitions as a country in the mid-20th century reflected the global dynamics in a post-World War 2 international order. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I went on a school trip aged 13 around the Mediterranean on a Second World War ship. Seeing lemon trees and orange… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive,… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember,… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kevorkian has just unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Born on March 20, 1971, she celebrated her 100th birthday this past March. During the war she toured the battle zones, where… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Berlin. November 18, 1917. Sunday. I think Grosz has something demonic in him. This new Berlin art in general, Grosz, Becher, Benn,… — Harry Kessler Copy Share Image
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
I repurposed an old World War II merchant ship door into one of the best coffee tables you have ever seen. I… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
In World War II movies, everybody is gung ho and patriotic. The Vietman War was somewhat different, to say the least. — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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