Eric Greitens Quotes
I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
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My kids' doctor will quickly answer any email, even if it's 11:00 at night. That's important to me.
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So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
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A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
