#great war

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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