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Sebastian Junger has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to…
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order…
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much…
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level…
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing…
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Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each…
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