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Winston was in a self-described political wilderness for much of his career, and was considered out of touch with political reality, thanks to his criticism of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a time when few British politicians were bothered by the rise of Adolf Hitler.
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It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times....
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To understand what Jesus accomplished and how he paid with his life, we have to understand what was happening around him. His was a time when Rome dominated the Western world and brooked no dissent. Human life was worth little. Life expectancy was less than forty years, and far less if you happened to anger the Roman powers that were. An excellent description of the time was written--perhaps with some bombast--by journalist Vermont Royster ..
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He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.
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but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.
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John upon their return from a trip. "The"
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of character for John Kennedy, a man
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The end of the world is no time to keep the American people uninformed.
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In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy's popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that divided city to reassert his nation's claims. He and Kennedy did not meet. In fact, crowds a fraction of the size that greeted Kennedy even noticed that Khrushchev was in town, underscoring JFK's amazing popularity and sending a clear message that Khrushchev's power was on the wane.
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Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
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You are the Christ, the son of the living God.
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black, and become infested with maggots--thus the inability to sit astride,
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In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, "her desire grew greater than it had been before."
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The Nazarene tells a parable about a wealthy landowner and his troublesome tenants. The summation is a line stating that the religious leaders will lose their authority and be replaced by others whose belief is more genuine.
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For two long years the Franks evaded detection by the Nazis. They were less than a month away from Amsterdam's liberation by the Allies when the end came. On August 4, 1944, a secret informant, whose name has never become known, gave away the family's hiding place to the Gestapo.
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Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton"
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Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The
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Thus begins a sideshow to the war itself: the undercover battle led by William Donovan and the OSS to ensure that Eastern Europe fall into the hands of Soviet Russia.
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The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. "Peace is going to be hell on me," he writes to his wife, Beatrice."
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Eisenhower's greatest strength and his greatest weakness: compromise. He wants to make everyone happy, and believes that "public opinion wins wars." Very often it seems Eisenhower would rather make the popular decision than the right one."
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Christmas Eve is known throughout Germany, ends late for Adolf Hitler. It is four o'clock on Christmas morning as he slowly ascends the stairs from his War Room and readies himself for bed. Rising at noon, the man who seeks to remove any sort of religious tone from Christmas6 receives the news that Peiper and his division have escaped entrapment.
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Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And"
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Hitler specifically chooses Carlyle's book because it was the eminent Scottish historian who set forth the "Great Man" theory of history, which states that "the history of the world is but a biography of great men." Leonidas"
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Churchill is a creature of habit, rising each morning at 7:30 in his official residence at 10 Downing Street, just a half mile up the road from the Houses of Parliament. He works in bed until 11:00, whereupon he bathes, pours a weak Johnnie Walker Red scotch and water, and then works some more.3 He sips Pol Roger champagne with lunch at 1:00 p.m. Whenever possible, this is followed by a game of backgammon with Clementine at 3:30. He takes a..
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I had all my staffs, except for VIII Corps, in for a conference. As usual on the verge of an attack, they were full of doubt. I seemed always to be the ray of sunshine, and by God, I always am. We can and will win, God helping." *"
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Franklin Roosevelt's biggest love is reserved for the American people, whom he has led through twelve daunting years of deprivation and warfare.
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He oversaw American forces in the Korean War,
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The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
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The Chinese Communist rebels want twenty million dollars to purchase arms for themselves to battle China's Japanese occupiers.
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The real hero," Holmlund heard George S. Patton say just four months ago, "is the man who fights even though he's scared."
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Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You are on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to your Prince of Peace. "Sir, I have never been an unreasonable man; I am not going to ask You to do the impossible."
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Audacity, audacity, always audacity"--a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations."
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Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee's men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene, and death," one Confederate general will later write." --
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From the very first question, Cronkite attempts
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The tone of pessimism and defeat that marked Carter's first day in office came to define his entire presidency.
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If you have not lost your self-control, and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot.
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aware that it is the year in which he will remarry, father a new child, and vote Republican for the first time in his life.
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I'm [having sex] for God. I'm not a negro tonight!
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