Sebastian Junger Quotes
The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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Everybody handles things differently.
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I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
