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Category: Dan Groat

People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

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How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

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I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.

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I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

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There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.

doing-what-must-be-done, hate, hatred

We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.

hate, haters, love, racism

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

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Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

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Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

character, poverty, temptation

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

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It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.

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