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21 " They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not. "
― Robert Ludlum , The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
22 " everything we knew, everything we felt!’ ‘Not quite everything,’ he said, touching her cheek. ‘I’m Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that’s the name I was given, and have to use it because I don’t have any other. But it’s not mine. "
23 " Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. "
24 " It’s not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it’s the corruptors "
25 " Two people were not one, "
26 " Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn’t have five minutes. "
27 " warmed by the cold sea around him. "
28 " One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things. "
29 " Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men, "
30 " Whenever you’re in a stress situation yourself—and there’s time, of course—do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you’re observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning. "
31 " If a stress situation results in injury, be aware of the fact that the damage may be as much psychological as physical. You may have a very real revulsion to pain and bodily harm. Don’t take risks, but if there’s time, give yourself a chance to adjust. Don’t panic.… "
32 " It’s an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn’t change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn’t a day that we don’t worry about those men who have survived the White House. "
33 " Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war. "
34 " followed – even now at this moment.’ The one-time beggar "
35 " The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you’re right. As one grows old it is easier still. "
36 " Because the physical conduits that permit and transmit those memories have been altered. Physically rearranged to the point where they no longer function as they once did. For all intents and purposes, they’ve been destroyed. "
37 " The physical and the psychological. They were related, interwoven—two strands of experience, or stimulae, that became knotted. "
38 " The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That’s what happened to you. The damage was physical. It’s as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was. "
39 " the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum; "
40 " emotional stress that produced stagnate hysteria and mental aphasia, conditions which also resulted in partial or total loss of memory. Amnesia. "