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I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
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Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist."
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Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.
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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
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A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
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I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
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I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.
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I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
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I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
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below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.
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Your hearing is fine. That's for sure. What's the longest word in the Gettysburg Address?" "Which symptom is that?" "Thinking." He thought. "There are three. All with eleven letters. Proposition, battlefield, and consecrated." "Now recite the first sentence. Like you were an actor on a stage." "Lincoln was coming down with smallpox at the time. Did you know that?" "That's not it." "I know. That was for extra credit on memory."
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You looked angry twenty minutes ago. With the McKinney family." "That was just a technical problem. Space and time. I didn't want to be late for dinner. I wasn't angry, really. Well, not at first. I got a bit frustrated later. You know, mentally. I mean, when there were four of them, I gave them the chance to come back in numbers. And what did they do? They added two more guys. That's all. They showed up with a total of six. What is that ab..
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The next hour, nothing happened. The fourth compound stayed closed up tight. I started to get bored. I started to wish the hobo hadn't left. We could have chatted awhile. Then I saw the third truck of the day come heading in. I raised the field glasses and saw California plates. Same type of truck, dirty red color, rumbling in off the highway, heading for the end compound. It went through a different routine from the first two. It went in t..
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Best we can do. And we have to do something."
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I like to know things. I'm hungry for knowledge."
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Cold?" Reacher said. "This is nothing."
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Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it."
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The driver wanted Reacher more than he wanted an undamaged front bumper.
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