The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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A wise man knows his limitations.” And a bold one seizes opportunities.
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Like many people he had a gut suspicion that cancer was contagious.
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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
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He had faced death before and was at the age where it remains the last thing a man need face.
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Shame we don’t have any bass. I can do some nice things with bass and a little lemon.
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It occurred to Ryan to pray briefly—but for what? For help in killing another man?
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Ryan was watching something he had never seen before, men from two different places and two very different cultures trying to find common ground.
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Facing a gun in a missile room was a small matter compared with walking away from one’s whole life.
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It was people like these who had built the American Dream, and people like these who were needed to maintain it.