Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some e...
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.
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 car...
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)