Tom Clancy Quotes
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control…
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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for…
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need…
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
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Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and…
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The good old days are now.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
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People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology.…
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Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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Wars are begun by frightened men.
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America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is…
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