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Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

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Tom Clancy's Popular Quotes

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

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An overnight success is ten years in the making.

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Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscur…

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There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

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

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

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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If yo…

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