"Being a victim is more palatable than having……" — Tom Clancy
"Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy."
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105 Quotes by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy has 105 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities 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…
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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…
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on…
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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…
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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.…
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More Contradiction Quotes
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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