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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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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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 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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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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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
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I'm still breathing because I have faith. My faith and my kids are the two things that matter.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.
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I would say a great song is where you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you want to dance and you feel invincible when you listen to that song. A good song I think you can listen to but you get tired of it really fast.
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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.