If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.

David Baldacci
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  2. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann

  4. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. - Jasper Fforde

  5. It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. - Diogenes Of Sinope

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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.

  5. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

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