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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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 grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.
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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 guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.
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Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
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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.
