“There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.”
Tom Clancy book Against All Enemies
Source: Against All Enemies
“How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?”
— Stephen King, book Guns
Source: Guns
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