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Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.
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[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.
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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
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After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
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Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
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If you believe you can accomplish everything by cramming at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
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They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
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I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
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There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
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Remember no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
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I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
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When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
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Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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