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There's nothing that's ever happened in the world that didn't start in one human mind.

— Tom Clancy In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

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I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.

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.

Without Remorse (1993)

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

to an interview on Larry King Live; also quoted in Quotable Quotes (1997)

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

Patriot Games (1987)

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.

Red Rabbit (2002)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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