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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I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.
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I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who – as I am sure you will agree – will do the job superbly.
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
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I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.
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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.
