Tom Clancy

Novelist

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Practical, traditional, and organized. Likely to be athletic. Not interested in theory or abstraction unless they see the practical application. Have clear visions of the way things should be. Loyal and hard-working. Like to be in charge. Exceptionally capable in organizing and running activities. “Good citizens” who value security and peaceful living.

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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.

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Quotes by Tom Clancy

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

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

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Success will ruin your life.

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.

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.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

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.

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.

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