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If everything was ideal, if I wasn't tied down to a home and a child and a dog and responsible living, and if I was a foot taller and wider in the shoulders and younger and handsomer, I'd be like De Gier". Which is not to say that life is easy for De Gier--or for Grijpstra, a more stolid type, or even for the police commissioner.
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Integrity means treating everybody with respect uncompromisingly, not cutting corners, and maintaining a certain zeal for life even when not everything is ideal.
The perfectionist in us kicks in and we don't make a move until everything is ideal, sound familiar?
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," he wrote.
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," he writes.
But his partial retelling reaches fraudulence when he writes, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," then backs and fills, saying that he bombed it, not literally but metaphorically, as part of the Weathermen group in charge of the operation.
Not everything about the setting was ideal; the acoustics were excessively lively, amplifying each rustle and squeak.
Not everything about his group's work was ideal, and the storage of the removed mines was outright dangerous.
The timing was ideal.
The location was ideal.
The weather was ideal.
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