"Here's an easy way to see if a……" — Sebastian Junger
"Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war."
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46 Quotes by Sebastian Junger
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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
— William Blum
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
— Simon Le Bon
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the…
— Barbara Bush
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
— Rosanne Cash
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