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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
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Thomas L. Clancy
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People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.
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Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.
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Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
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When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
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Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
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Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
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The good old days are now.
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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 do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
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That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
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She didn't strike me as a crossword in ink kind of girl
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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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The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
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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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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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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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