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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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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
— Blaise Pascal
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic…
— Alan Dershowitz
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is…
— Henry Fielding
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would…
— Michel Foucault
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I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my…
— Roy Spencer
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Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.
— Paulo Coelho
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Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all,…
— Blaise Pascal
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He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries…
— George Steiner
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You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in…
— Greg Egan
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop…
— Alfred Capus
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
— Martin Luther
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