Sebastian Junger Quotes
There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
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Our reason is our law.
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Around four o’clock, when our bosses were having tea, the forewoman bumped me with her bony hip. This was a sign that she would take over for fifteen minutes while I went on a break. Every day she gave one of us a break like that. There was no more “reason” for her kindness than for the cruelty of the camp commander who had slapped Trude. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.
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Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.
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One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.
