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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."

"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."

"Getting fired from work is not a tragedy."
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"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."

"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
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