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"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 I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"Employment stereotypes you."
"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
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"There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me."
"Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back."
"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played."
"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college."
"When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?"
"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform."
"There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years."
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