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Sebastian Junger

"Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders."

-- Sebastian Junger

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“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”
“Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.”
“We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?”

Source : "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.
“The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.”
“Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.”
“There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.”
“Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.”
“You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.”

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