"War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of."

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Source : "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.

Sebastian Junger

#Veterans Day Quotes #War Quotes #Military Quotes

“Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.”
“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.”
“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.”

Source : Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.297
“Thereâ€™s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”
“When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?”
“In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.”
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
“The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.”

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