Sebastian Junger Quotes

If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.

Sebastian Junger

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1962

Topics

MindBrainYouBodyWrongYour Body

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Joe Haldeman

WarWillBecomeSomethingWorse

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

Michael Eric Dyson

RealitySituationTragedyClassPoor

Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

DecisionDeathPeopleWorldWealth

I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.

Jonathan Galassi

GoodBestMoneyThinkSheRight

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

Chen Shui-bian

AcceptWillListenOverNextYears

Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Bruce Rauner

GovernmentRetirementRetireWorkers

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Anthony Doerr

PowerPersonalFictionCollective

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Annalee Newitz

ScienceNameYouKnowRealFiction

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Alfred Doblin

AloneHabitMeListeningWalking

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Pope Benedict XVI

HeartAmericaImportantReasonVery

I'd love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

Shawn Mendes

WorkLoveMarsRyan

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

Ricky Gervais

ThinkPrettyI Think

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