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I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
Molly Ivins
War
World
Before
Kicking
Out
Around
Said
Dogs
Shepherds
Go
However
Were
Bullies
German
Did
Patriotic
Grounds
Brings
World War
World War I
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
Dennis Prager
War
Time
Communism
Confused
World
Become
Liberalism
Carnage
Liberals
Following
About
Morally
Had
Since
Identified
Arms
Been
Led
Left
Essentially
Pacifist
Which
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Inception
World War
World War I
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
Virginia Postrel
Positive
War
Quality
Experience
Battle
People
World
Dangerous
Vision
Illusion
Changed
Trenches
Way
Only
Glamorous
Glamour
Longer
Shattered
Referred
Began
Nations
Psychologically
Realities
European
European Nations
Treated
World War
World War I
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
Oliver North
War
Government
Democracy
Business
Rights
People
World
Goals
Own
Realistic
Human Rights
Respects
Since
Protects
WWII
Nation-Building
Been
West
Goal
Friend
Very
Afghanistan
Human
Representative
Necessary
World War
World War I
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan
War
Battle
World
Mind
Trench
Never
Like
Terrain
Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Warfare
Hard
Barren
Many
Fought
World War
World War I
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 in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
David McCullough
War
Book
World
Before
Finding
Follow
Entire
Had
Over
Like
Look
Wrote
Tracks
Does
Got
His
Truman
Account
Going
Experiences
Certain
Europe
Satisfaction
Right
World War
World War I
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
Pete Hamill
War
Business
World
Police
Ideology
Negativity
Anarchist
Out
Except
Had
Faded
Drove
Permanent
Go
Off
Them
Away
Nowhere
World War
World War I
Set
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
Scott Spencer
War
History
World
Worse
Futility
Would
Purpose
Shameful
Could
Clear
Armed
Make
Without
Said
Ultimately
The History Of
Conflicts
Place
Far
Special
Special Place
Ludicrous
Whose
Waste
Lives
World War
World War I
Resolution
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
William Golding
War
You
Man
World
Remove
Before
Believe
Society
Correct
Unable
Possible
Something
Structure
Could
Goodwill
Because
Did
Same
After
Again
Social
Produced
Therefore
Ills
Believed
Second
World War
World War I
Second World War
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
Amity Shlaes
War
World
Out
Forever
Just
Experienced
Anyone
Who
Awful
World War
World War I
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
Ben Barnes
Life
War
Family
World
Other
Trench
France
Members
Runner
Memorial
Life Span
Had
He
Hours
Involved
Survived
Family Members
Span
Them
Average
Who
Whole
Two
World War
World War I
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
Bill Dedman
War
Home
Family
Garden
World
Father
Young
Sold
Out
John
Glenn
Over
Town
Mostly
Known
Deaf
Help
Injuries
World War
World War I
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
Celine Buckens
Love
War
Me
History
Book
World
Sections
About
Knew
Devoured
Lot
Very
Stories
After
Interest
Really
World History
Actually
Two
World War
World War I
World War II
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Daniel Yergin
War
World
Fears
Ran
Out
Similar
End
Experienced
World War
World War I
In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
Darryl Pinckney
War
Great
World
Black
Rushed
Russian
Blacks
Had
Freedoms
Came
Years
South
Began
North
After
Mean
Migrate
Who
World War
World War I
Imagined
Numbers
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing
War
World
Mother
About
Write
Had
She
Messed
Messed Up
Been
Up
Wanted
Should
World War
World War I
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
Doris Lessing
War
World
Father
Parents
Exactly
Exactly What
Atmosphere
Brought
About
Physically
Both
Mentally
Both My Parents
Emotionally
Badly
Like
Know
Because
Were
Up
Child
Children
Really
World War
Damaged
World War I
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
Douglass North
War
World
Father
Before
Sister
Older
Brother
Brother And Sister
Born
Both
Am
Were
Off
Than
World War
World War I
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
Eliot Engel
War
World
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Simply
Empire
Over
Armenians
Well
Were
Estimated
Eve
Lived
Million
Two
World War
World War I
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
Eric Kandel
War
World
November
Defeat
Born
Following
Empire
Fell
Years
After
Apart
Vienna
Eleven
World War
World War I
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
Positive
War
Time
History
You
Technology
World
Example
Hundred
Hundred Years
Kind
About
Compression
Had
Smaller
Over
For Example
Know
Look
Likely
Couple
Terrible
Globe
Making
Misunderstandings
Years
Led
Effects
The History Of
Much
Less
World War
World War I
It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.
Erik Larson
War
World
School
College
High
Sunk
High School
High School And College
Courses
Item
Timeline
Survey
Gets
Essentially
Taught
World War
World War I
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
Frank Scott
War
World
Post
Brought
Touch
Developing
Ideas
Europe
World War
World War I
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti
Life
War
World
Hungary
My Life
First
Important
National
Independent
Components
Entity
Vast
Empire
Most
Became
Years
Six
The Most Important
After
Dynasty
World War
World War I
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.
Guy Martin
War
World
First
Bit
Embarrassed
About
Know
First World
First World War
How
Tanks
Were
Little
Used
Even
World War
World War I
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
Ivica Dacic
War
History
World
Will
Neither
Allow
Main
Nor
Revision
Forget
Who
Serbia
World War
World War I
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