Sebastian Junger Quotes
Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
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South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.
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There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.
