"It is a principle of diplomacy that one……" — Tom Clancy
"It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly."
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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 Convincingly Quotes
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain…
— Adolf Hitler
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Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
— Robert Collier
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
— Ernst Gombrich
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating…
— E. O. Wilson
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... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required…
— Unknown Author
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I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I…
— Ansel Elgort
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in…
— Unknown Author
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If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO…
— Don Berliner
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One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about…
— Nick Cave
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Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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