I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.


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War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not ...
SEBASTIAN PINERA
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You ne...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
SEBASTIAN THRUN
I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bi...
SEBASTIAN STAN
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in aca...
SEBASTIAN THRUN
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play go...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do th...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situat...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousn...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the r...
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