Tom Clancy on ideas

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

What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885