The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.
Tom Clancy, Executive Orders.
“He had to grow his own NCOs.”
“You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.”
“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”
“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”
“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”
“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”
“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”
“My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products th...”
“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see hi...”
“The fruits of every laborer are bountiful, ripe and sweet just as the laborer's input. The laws of compensation do not allow one to have a bumper harvest against poor sowing and maintenance... If y...”
“Thats when I first learned that it wasnt enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and p...”