Tom Clancy Quotes

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• I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
• Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for…
• Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full…
• What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl
• And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and…
• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only…
• The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
• Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur…
• I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important.…
• Most things in here don't react well to bullets.
• (Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
• Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
• Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and…
• An overnight success is ten years in the making.
• Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every…
• It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
• It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
• There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

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