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“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”
“I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.”
“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”
“Back then "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary America — but 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.”
“The hard part is discriminating between factual reporting and journalistic fiction. Last year at the National Press Club I said out loud and in public [C-SPAN was there] that the difference between me and a lot of reporters is that I do good fiction. Some were polite enough to chuckle.”
“I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.”
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Thomas Francis "King" Clancy (December 2, 1872 – September 28, 1938) was a Canadian football player and coach. He was originally a baseball player before becoming a football player in 1894. He was the coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1904 to 1911, 1913, and 1921 to 1922 (and an assistant in 1919). Clancy was known as "The original King", since his son, Frank Clancy was known as King Clancy.
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