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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.
- Andry Rajoelina
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But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.
- William Odom
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
- R. Lee Ermey
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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
- Dennis C. Blair
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Titles are spoils of war.
- Josh Barnett
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We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a completely manmade material invented right after World War Two, didn't exist on the planet prior to the 1940s.
- Robert Bilott
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I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
- Charles Schwab
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My father was in the First World War.
- Doris Lessing
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No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Oh! What a Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
- Jane Seymour
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
- Aaron Stanford
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The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
- Mark Foley
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I love that sort of 1930s and 1940s; I love that period - the thought of it. And I like war movies and all that kind of stuff as well.
- Colin O'Donoghue
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The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
- Rhys Ifans
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The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent's army.
- Daniel Naroditsky
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I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.
- Daniel Naroditsky
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
- Odeya Rush
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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
- George R. R. Martin
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Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
- Jennifer Armintrout
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Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
- Jerry Stiller
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I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.
- Albert Finney
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If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.
- Mark Shand
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After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.
- Howard Fast
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The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure.
- Julia Child
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
- Barbara Olson
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While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.
- Judd Rose
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
- Finn Jones
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
- Harry Triguboff
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
- Vikram Seth
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My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
- Moon Jae-in
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There are too many war museums.
- Óscar Arias
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Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.
- John Prendergast
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My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
- Roland Orzabal
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Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
- Benjamin Todd Jealous
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The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
- Richard Reeves
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But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
- Christopher Shays
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First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
- Christopher Shays
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We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
- Christopher Shays
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The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.
- Christopher Shays
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I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
- Christopher Shays
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What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
- Christopher Shays
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
- Christopher Shays
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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
- Betty Hill
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
- Igor Ivanov
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
- David Zabel
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I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
- Patty Hearst
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Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.
- Michiko Kakutani
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We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.
- Douglas Feith
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We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.
- Douglas Feith
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I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
- Douglas Feith
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We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?
- Ashleigh Banfield
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It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
- Eric Stoltz
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Sending our youth to war is wrong.
- Michael Berryman
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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
- Michael Berryman
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No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
- Saul David
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
- George R. R. Martin
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If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
- Algernon Sidney
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'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
- Richard Dawson
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The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.
- Richard Dawson
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But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
- Sam Donaldson
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People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
- Hideo Kojima
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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
- Arthur Henderson
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The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
- Gough Whitlam
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Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
- Bob Hawke
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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
- Bob Hawke
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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
- Roberto Cavalli
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I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
- Don Young
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After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
- Hugh Bonneville
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In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
- Cyril Ramaphosa
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Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
- Jan Vogler
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I've never had a particularly sweet tooth. In fact, during the war, I used to swap my sweet ration coupons with my father - and he'd give me his clothing coupons in return. Looking good was more important to me than scoffing sweets.
- June Whitfield
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
- Philip Kearny
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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
- Luis Walter Alvarez
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
- Walter Kohn
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
- Walter Kohn
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No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
- Charles Albert Gobat
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
- Arrian
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The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
- Theodore Schultz
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Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.
- Richard N. Haass
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We knew that Erik Morales was a great warrior and he was going to give a great fight. I never thought it was going to be an easy fight. I was expecting a war and that is exactly what happened.
- Marcos Maidana
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
- Wally Schirra
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'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.
- Julia Gillard
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
- Jack Ma
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
- Henry Kissinger
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
- Charles Farrar Browne
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By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn't taste very good, and as a rule, people didn't eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.
- John Seabrook
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We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.
- Gail Bradbrook
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Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.
- William T. Vollmann
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
- Alexander Berkman
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My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.
- Tom Stoppard
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It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
- John Mahoney
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
- John Mahoney
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
- John Gregory Dunne
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Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
- John Gregory Dunne
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Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.
- Maurice Allais
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
- Earl Blumenauer
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
- Earl Blumenauer
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After doing 'War and Peace,' I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It's easy to put people into a category after you've seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I'm trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.
- Tuppence Middleton
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