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“China might have given up on trying to stop the endless civil war, but some of its companies were still here, picking over history’s… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Oh, bless them,” Evie breathed. “Bless whom?” “All of them,” she said, throwing her arms wide as if to embrace the whole city. “They… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
“China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“China’s everything. Nothing else matters. We don’t get China right, we don’t get anything right. This whole thing is very simple. China is where… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.” — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“Russia and China were joining forces with the US? They were going to set up a perimeter of troops around the Milky Way?” — Ashley L. Hunt Copy Share Image
“Time waits for no country these days, however, not even one as important, or unimportant, as China. Nero fiddled, Jiang theorizes.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his… — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
“Even if Chinese own the entire world; still they will be servants.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions. — Margaret MacMillan 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 nationalistic one. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“There are only two perfectly useless things in the world,” he quipped. “One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
