-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.” Stone said nothing.-“ Why then? God and country?”-“ Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.”-“What then?”-“ So I can look at myself in the mirror. David Baldacci
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  1. Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
  2. It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
  3. She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.”“ You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of...
  4. Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
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