"A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense."

-- Vince Flynn

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“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.”
“I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.”
“I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.”
“If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,”
“People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.”
“For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.81
“It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.”
“In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.”

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