when it was revealed that the entire stable of the CIA’s Cuban agents—half a hundred of them, recruited and handled and producing intelligence for three decades—had with two exceptions been double agents controlled all along by the General
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“Every time Peter has had a barbeque in the past twenty years and asks how Tails would like his steak, Tails replies “Just frighten it a bit with your headlights and put it on the plate!,” and Peter laughs EVERY time.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“It’s quaint in a strange kind of way, like a post-apocalyptic frontier town.”
― Winter World
― Winter World
“The Pacific is vast. It covers over thirty percent of the planet. In fact, it covers more area than all of the Earth’s landmasses combined. The Atlantic is much smaller. It’s roughly half the size of the Pacific. It’s”
― Winter World
― Winter World
“A good sailor weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”
― Eye for Eye
― Eye for Eye
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain”
― Dark Voyage
― Dark Voyage
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