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Almost all great fortunes are based upon one genius idea and the guts to go with it.
Hard work and luck also help.
the Limited War Laboratory came up with a new kind of gun for close-quarter work
in a confined space.
So the seventy-four
four traceable Smith & Wesson revolvers were sent back to the States and never seen again.
held a shortened-barrel .44 magnum Smith & Wesson.
The fired slug broke into four flying
parts; all four penetrated at the ten-foot range and performed considerable mi...
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Drop-dead handsome Emilio did exactly that, mouth open to scream, when the second discharge took him in the face and neck, one sh...
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The second gorilla was halfway out of the car when he met his Maker in an unforeseen rendezvous with four spinning, tumbling metal fragments entering th...
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might not have been allowed in the tunnels of Cu Chi, but twenty years later it worked like a dream on the streets of Panama.
terror, its creation and infliction. He knew that whether imposed by the state or a nongovernmental source, it always divides into five levels.
the plotters,
the planners, the authorizers, th...
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Next co...
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enablers, the faci...
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without whom no plan ...
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Third come the doers, those deprived of norma...
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At slot four are the active co...
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At the bottom are the broad masses; bovine, stupid, saluting the tyrant, garlanding the murderers.
“The hatred of your country is not because it attacks theirs; it is because it
Never seek popularity. You can have supremacy or be loved but never both. What is felt toward you is ten percent genuine disagreement and ninety percent envy. Never forget two things! No man can ever forgive his protector.
There is no loathing that any man harbors more intense than that to...
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terrorism came from the minds of the comfortably raised, well-educated, middle-class theorists with a truly staggering personal vanity and a developed taste for self-indulgence.
“They’ll never forgive you, dear boy,” the old man had said. “Never expect it, and you’ll never be disappointed. Your country is a constant reproach. It is rich to their poor, strong to their weak, vigorous to their idle, enterprising to their reactionaries, ingenious to their bewildered, can-do to their sit-and-wait, thrusting to their timid.
The working class of the Third World does not hate you; it is the pseudo-intellectuals. If they ever forgive you, they must indict themselves. So far their hatred lacks the weaponry. One day they will acquire that weaponry. Then you will have to fight or die. Not in tens but in tens of thousands.”
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
who checks the checkers?
