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"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
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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."

"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."

"Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency."
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"Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government."

"It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state."

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

"The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities."

"The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation."

"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
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