"In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world."

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Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 13), 1975.

Jimmy Hoffa

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“My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.”
“What made the beauty of the moon? And the beauty of the sea? Did that beauty made you? Did that beauty make me? Will that make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: already am, always was, and I still have time to be.”
“Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.”
“When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.”

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“If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.”
“Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.”
“Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.”
“There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.”

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