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en History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
  Enoch Powell

en In our lifetime, we have not seen a disease sweep through a community and people die so fast that there's no one to take care of them at the hospital and there's no one to bury them. That's what will happen in a pandemic. It would be more deaths than all the world's wars in all of human history. All within the space of six to 18 months.

en Perhaps we've been a bit serious about our history in the past, a bit pious. I think maybe we focused before on the gloomier sides of our history, the entanglements that didn't work, the land wars and the things that went awry.

en After the revolution, four soldiers from that war settled in Rochester, ... We start with them and go into the War of 1812, and the Toledo war, which was a border dispute between Michigan and Ohio. Then we go into the Black Hawk War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Persian Gulf wars and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

en We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

en We're giving Star Wars fans what they want ? an accessible, fun online adventure that starts where Star Wars: Episode IV left off. Since June 2003, we've sold more than 1.5 million units of Star Wars Galaxies, and the game has continually improved. The Starter Kit gives fans of all abilities the opportunity to join thousands of Star Wars fans online in nonstop, easy-to-play Star Wars action.

en This case is before the court ... to do away with this ... falsifying of history. We are here because the Belgrade authorities have taken the non-Serbs of Bosnia on a path to hell, a path littered with dead bodies, broken families... and lost futures.

en Right here in our back yards are the sites of battles and campaigns that are as important in our history as the Civil War, ... Our knowledge of those wars lags far behind the Civil War. When I give talks, people seem to be astonished by the depth and variety of history along the lake.

en I'm a Star Wars junkie, and I know the number of science fiction fans we have here. I knew this would be a problem, just like I knew everyone would try to download Internet Explorer 5.0 when it was released.

en We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

en Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure
  Thomas Jefferson

en In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history

en All history, of course, is the history of wars
  Penelope Lively

en Right now, we need to capture as much history as we can for World War II and for other wars, too. We'd also like to get more local organizations and interests.

en That is why we are making history after 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery. She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh.


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