"Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid."

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Source : "Online Extra: The Free Market's "Softer Side"". Interview with Lee Walczak, www.bloomberg.com. March 17, 2005.

Jacob Hacker

#Retirement Quotes #Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.”
“Great businessmen are creators.”
“Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.”
“Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.”
“Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity.”
“Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.131, WaterBrook
“I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.”
“We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.”

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