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Tom Clancy [1947-2013] American

Rank: 101
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Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War.

Change, Knowledge, Technology, Chance, Good, Government, Learning, Movies, Power, Society, Veterans Day

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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.	Government, Knowledge, Power	101
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.	Veterans Day	102
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.	Change, Society	103
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.		104
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.		105
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.	Change	106
The good old days are now.	Good	107
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.		108
What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.		109
Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.		110
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.		111
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.	Learning	112
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.	Technology	113
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?	Knowledge, Technology	114
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.		115
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.	Chance	116
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.	Movies	117
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.		118
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.		119
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.		120
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.		121
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.		122
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.		123
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.		124
Success will ruin your life.		125
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.		126
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?		201
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.		202
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?		203
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.		204
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.		205
Wars are begun by frightened men.		206
Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.		207
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.		208
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.		209
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.		210
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.		211
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.		212
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.		213
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.		214
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.		215

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