Ernst Junger Quotes
From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
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It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.
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From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme.
