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The only real difference betw...

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 because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

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I think about the characters ...

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

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In battle, you forgive a man ...

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Tom Clancy 152 quotes

Show me an elitist, and I'll ...

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

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Fundamentally, I think of mys...

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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The control of information is...

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 information, you can control people.

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Success will ruin your life. ...

Success will ruin your life.

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Whenever somebody comes up wi...

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 says, Oh, you can't do that.

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One thing about flying that h...

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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Courage is being the only onl...

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

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Nothing is as real as a dream...

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success

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Success is a finished book, a...

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

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It was one thing to use compu...

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

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Ice hockey is the closest thi...

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

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Being a victim is more palata...

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

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Nothing is as real as a dream...

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 not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

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There are only two ways we ca...

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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I do not over-intellectualise...

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

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Colleges typically did not te...

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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The most wounding insult to a...

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....