"The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse."

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Source : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

Adam Hochschild

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“We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.”
“You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.”

Source : Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.20, New World Library
“This machine kills fascists.”
“Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.”
“I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.”
“Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!”
“My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.”
“Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.132, Yale University Press

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