“ Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“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
For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
“Mildred Elizabeth Sisk later named Mildred Elizabeth Gillars was born in Portland, Maine on November 29, 1900. In 1929, Gillars left the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“But the sluggishness of the economy widened the gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“As we flew inland from the coast at about 1,200 feet I looked down to see a strange countryside. What I saw… — Max Arthur Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes… — David Icke Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
“Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
During a World War I armistice in 1914, a match was played between British and German soldiers before the real hostilities resumed.… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“Though he didn’t yet know it, Lee was about to be thrust into an unlikely battle involving the alpine castle whose icon… — Stephen Harding Copy Share Image
“Deer were exterminated in Kansas by market and subsistence hunting in the late 1800s, as were elk, bison, and pronghorn. Deer are… — James E. Mason Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
![“[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.” quote by Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/paul-krugman-2255_barack_i-f-you-look-at-united-states-history-si_1148835.jpg)
