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At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.


Sebastian Coe

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SEBASTIAN JUNGER If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if yo...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the one...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-en...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant mea...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me...
SEBASTIAN STAN Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failu...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they'...
SEBASTIAN STAN Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
SEBASTIAN BACH Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
SEBASTIAN THRUN I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
SEBASTIAN BACH I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessn...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
SEBASTIAN THRUN When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big...
SEBASTIAN THRUN They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their frie...
SEBASTIAN BACH I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are craw...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
SEBASTIAN THRUN The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuf...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my ...
SEBASTIAN STAN