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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

~A. J. P. Taylor

Topics: Being Capitalism Capitalist Caused Course Discover Discovered Every First First World First World War Fought Great He Inevitably Lenin Only Right Since State War World World War

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

~Adam Hochschild

Topics: Century First First World First World War Many Our Our World Really Shaped War Ways World World War Worse 20Th Century

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

~Adam Hochschild

Topics: Almost Assume Clear Enduring First First World First World War Foresee Generals Hindsight Invariably Lead Made Nations Obvious Painfully Politicians Problems Remarkably Seem Swift Tendency Victory War World World War

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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

~Andrea Riseborough

Topics: Again Believed Both Brought Definitely Died Everyone Everything Felt Finished First First World First World War Fought Grandfathers Great-Grandfather Impression Just Never Okay Out Second Second World War Truly War World World War World War I

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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: About First First World First World War Forget Grandfather History Human Human History Me People Remember Stories Tend Vividly War Which World World War Worst

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School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Away Civil Collapse Come Conflict Empires Extended First First World First World War Four Front Further Going Much Numerous Over Simply Slaughter Thinking Top Unfortunately War Wars Western Will World World War

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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Admittedly Equally Families Fighting First First World First World War Living Our Politics Realities Same Scale Soldiers Through Time Tragic War Wars Where World World War

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The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: America Armenians Century First First World First World War Genocide Knows Million Most Next North North America Nothing Reality Slaughter Systematic War World World War

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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Belgium Benefit Born City Classical Cosmopolitan Dutch Education England First First World First World War French German Grew Had Languages National Parents Partly Roots Taught Two Up War Where World World War

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If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

~Christian Lacroix

Topics: Back Been Clothes Come Creative Creativity First First World First World War Forms French French Revolution History Look Luxury Moment New New Forms Play Revolution Second Second World War The History Of War World World War You

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