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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.

Isaac Asimov

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.

Isaac Asimov

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

John Boyd Orr

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

Jane Seymour

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Jim Webb

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Ken Follett

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

Mike Rogers

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Phil Donahue

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Richard Holbrooke

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Robert Kiyosaki

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

Tom Hanks

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Walter Kohn

Look and keep silent, and if you are eating meat, tell the world it's fish.

Arabian

If you stay long enough in one place the whole world passes you by.

Chinese

The world at large doesn't lead to hell nor does the monastery lead to heaven.

Czech

The world is a round gulf, and he who cannot swim must go to the bottom.

Spanish

What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small?

Serbian