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"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."

"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."
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