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"I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."

"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one's clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday."

"Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work."
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"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."


"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."


"You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters."


"We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family."


"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."


"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."


"Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences."


"I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds."
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