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«Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s»
Author: Geoffrey Perrett
| Keywords:
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«It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.»
«I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.»
«There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.»
Author: Martin Scorsese
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
holocaust, holocausts, rut, ruts, The holocaust, world war, World War II
«These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Soldiers,
War
| Keywords:
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«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
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«I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
War
| Keywords:
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«John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bombing, Dalton, John Dalton, preserved, records, world war, World War II
«Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.»
Author: Nancy Cartwright
(Actress)
| Keywords:
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«There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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