“I started working on the theme -- what happens if we lose the war on terror -- after 9/11. It seemed obvious that if 19 guys could bring down the World Trade Center, then we are in deep water.”
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“When I first started writing, I thought it would be doctrinaire.”
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“Religion is a hot-button issue for people, and in a way I think that is good. Religion matters.”
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Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all… those are lies too, lies wrapped in hope.
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The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
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People want to believe.
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Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.
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The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.
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Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so that someday historians can sit quietly at their desks and act shocked.
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The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.
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Time is the only thing even money cant buy.
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You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.
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Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.
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Im married to the future.
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People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.
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Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.
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No one believes what theyre told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.
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Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasnt convinced.
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Man had to hang on to his pride.
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If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.
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