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1 " A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies. "
― Nelson DeMille , Plum Island (John Corey, #1)
2 " Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. "
3 " I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know. "
4 " As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location. "
5 " The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy. "
6 " Anyway, I’m getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks. "
7 " As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. "
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9 " Trying to improve on anthrax is like trying to improve on gunpowder. Anthrax is easy to propagate, easy to handle, it diffuses nicely into the air, kills slowly enough for the infected population to spread it around, and cripples as many victims as it kills, causing a collapse of the enemy’s health care system. "
10 " The way to a woman’s heart is through her funny bone. Women like men who make them laugh. I think. "
11 " Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn’t have all the power. "
12 " tell you, the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you’re able to lift it. "
13 " The last big deadly human influenza epidemic in the world was in 1918. There were about twenty million dead worldwide, including five hundred thousand in the United States. Based on our present population, the equivalent number of dead now would be approximately one and a half million people. Could you imagine such a thing today? And the 1918 virus wasn’t particularly virulent, and of course, travel was much slower then and less frequent. Today, the highways and skyways can spread an infectious virus around the world in days. "
14 " I hit him with a left hook, and he toppled back onto the grass. "
15 " I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place. "
16 " Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock. "
17 " Don’t buy anything. My philosophy is, if it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it. "
18 " but if you don’t know where you’re going or why, you’re either a government employee or you’re aimless. "
19 " I think if I worked with the stuff they worked with, I, too, wouldn’t make any long-range plans. Hell, I wouldn’t even buy green bananas. "
20 " The wonderful thing about America is that there are more antiques in circulation than were originally made. "
