Tom Clancy Short Quotes

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Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

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The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

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The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

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Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

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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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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

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Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

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Our tools keep getting better, and as a result of that, our lives keep getting better.

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That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

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The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

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If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.

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I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

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My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel … and I read a lot of history.

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Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

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China has a lot of people and not enough space and the Russians have not too many people and a lot of space.

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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'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

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Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

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There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

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Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

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The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of little boys buzzing past girls on their bicycles.

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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 a rebate.

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Look, this is simple. The good old days are now. OK? The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

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A field commander never has the information he needs. He has to go with his best hunch. The more information he has, the easier it is for him to win the battle.

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Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one — or take equivalent action, I suppose.

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One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

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Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

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I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

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