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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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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.
