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World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo… — Philip Roth
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… — Dave Brubeck
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence… — Dave Brubeck
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. — George Crumb
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full… — John Cornyn
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that… — Warren Christopher
War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is… — Dinesh D'Souza
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. — Adolf Galland
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. — Hugh Bonneville
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III. — Al Yankovic
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. — Darrell Issa
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. — Sebastian Junger
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble… — Jeremy Grantham
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in… — Julie Salamon
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me… — Mitchell Zuckoff
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago… — Eddie Izzard
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school,… — Bill Nighy
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks… — David McCullough
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from… — Will Eisner
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… — Walter Cronkite

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