After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
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EISAKU SATO the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II.
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ELIZABETH BERG Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
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EILEEN MEADORS World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
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CLINT EASTWOOD World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the ...
LANE EVANS Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
RAMSEY CLARK But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not ...
WALTER KOHN It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU This could possibly be the worst period of Sino-Japanese relations since World War II.
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TOM WOLFE No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime...
GUY SAJER This is the first major turnaround in development assistance since World War II.
ROBERT ORR World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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WARREN CHRISTOPHER My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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AUDREY HEPBURN Today, 90 percent of them are World War II veterans, now in their 80s.
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MONICA CROWLEY It's not only World War II, but we're losing Vietnam veterans, Korean.
ED SANDERS I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.
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NICKOLE SANDERS Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course...
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MARTIN SCORSESE And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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LES MELNYK Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clea...
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
For though the day be never so longe,
At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY