Mark Bowden Quotes

#1. For a country to have a great writer is like having another government,

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#2. No one gets left behind, you know that.

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#3. His only cause, ultimately, was himself.

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#4. It is harder to defend a computer than to attack it.

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#5. Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

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#6. The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall - a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!

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#7. Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,

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#8. Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

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#9. Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

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#10. Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civilization.

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#11. 60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube.

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#12. Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. "There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.

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#13. These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

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#14. But modern malware is aimed less at exploiting individual computers than exploiting the Internet. A botnet-creating worm doesn't want to harm your computer; it wants to use it.

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#15. The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.

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#16. The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

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#17. They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did.

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#18. General Maza, the survivor of two grotesque assassination attempts, put it bluntly: 'This country won't be put right as long as Escobar is alive.

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#19. It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

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#20. Man, God really does love medics.

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#21. remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.

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#22. Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I ... that I ... that I fought hard.

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#23. Anyone who uses Windows on their home computer is familiar with routine security updates, which Microsoft issues on the second Tuesday of each month. In the Tribe it has become known as "Patch Tuesday.

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#24. I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.

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#25. Do you truly hate them? Or is it more the feeling you get when you're around them that you hate?

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#26. Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?

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#27. The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men.

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#28. John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of "antiwar," which he felt, and I'm paraphrasing him here, was like being "anti-food" or "anti-sex," since war was such an essential element of human experience.

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#29. The bar on business communication is set so low that there are almost no entry-level requirements other than being a living human being

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#30. taught to compose a letter on an e-mail account, and then store it as a draft instead of sending it. His colleagues, armed with a password to the same account, could then log in and retrieve the draft e-mail without it ever having been sent, presumably avoiding America's watchful eye.

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#31. In the world's most dangerous country, the job of going after Pablo was the most dangerous position of all.

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#32. The Internet promised a truly global egalitarian age. That was the idea, anyway. The international and unstructured nature of the thing was vital to these early Internet idealists. If knowledge is power, then power at long last would reside where it belonged, with the people, all people!

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#33. Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The

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#34. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. - John F. Kennedy

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#35. Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.

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#36. Profit is the universal trigger of innovation.

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