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.
Tom ClancyEven true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Tom ClancyI am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Tom ClancyTags: politics fiction dishonesty
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.
Tom ClancyChrist, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of
him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation.
Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew
different parts of the whole story,
but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate
fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder
about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Tom ClancyAnd so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.
Tom ClancyShe didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl
Tom ClancyThe 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.
Tom ClancyTags: kindlehighlight
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
Tom ClancyTags: kindlehighlight
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