Sebastian Junger Quotes
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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
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The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’…
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In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker…
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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss…
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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
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It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to…
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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful,…
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I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking…
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The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or…
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Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow…
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I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called…
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I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but…
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A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
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I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
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I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S.…
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I hope I get married one day.
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I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
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The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first…
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Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
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