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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Child

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Pictures

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• 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.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Tax

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• 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?

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Meaningful

• If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

  

  Jeremy Miles Ferguson Amen
  • Remember
  • Hate
  • Reason

• For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.

  

  Nigel Barker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reason

• Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Harmony
  • Conflict

• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Society
  • Victim
  • Creature

• Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Amazing
  • Books

• There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.

  

  Sebastian Junger
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