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#1

“The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank

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“You're never too young to die.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

tags: adventure

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#3

“Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"
"Is that including, or not including you?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Eagle Strike

tags: humor, sarcasm

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#4

“A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia Rising

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#5

“What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"

"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."

"What?"

"I set fire to the boat."

"But we're on the boat!"

"I know.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key

tags: agent-tom-turner, alex-rider, sarcasm

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#6

“Was it fate? Was it destiny?"
"I think it was Alan Blunt.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel

tags: humorous

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#7

“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .”

"I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Snakehead

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#8

“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

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#9

“Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Ark Angel

tags: humor, thoughts

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#10

“I have a couple of questions," he said.

"Do, please, go ahead."

"My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?"

"I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!"

"Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Eagle Strike

tags: eagle-strike

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#11

“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

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#12

“He died fighting for what he believed in.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

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#13

“All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette

tags: inspirational, letting-go, wisdom

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#14

“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank

tags: anthony-horowitz, enemy, killed, lessons, point-blank, routine

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#15

“Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?”

"Because they’re talented.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

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#16

“We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia

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#17

“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia Rising

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#18

“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

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“Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette

tags: experience, learning, mistakes, moving-on-and-letting-go, wisdom

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#20

“We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette

tags: choices

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#21

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

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#22

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: history, humor, memory, recall

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#23

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#24

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#25

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: history

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#26

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#27

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte

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#28

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy

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#29

“What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider”
― Anthony Horowitz

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#30

“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Crocodile Tears

tags: humorous

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