And we expect people to earn it -- study hard, work hard for it.
And with hard work -- with hard work, strong faith, and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.
It's hard work, really hard work, often requiring tremendous resources (lactation consultants, machines that make you feel like a dairy cow, shields and all sorts of bizarre contraptions) that can take weeks, even months, to get right.
Parents who realize just how little difference hard work makes will work less hard.
"Work hard, play hard" may not work for everybody, but there is certainly a group for whom it does work.
Hard work may be a virtue and digging ditches by hand is certainly hard work.
Reconciling that tidy statement with practically any of his poems is hard work but, as Mr Moody shows over and over again, hard work that offers huge rewards.
They don't feel as if hard work and responsibility pay off anymore, and they don't see that hard work and responsibility reflected either in Washington or, all too often, on Wall Street.
He asked his players if they wanted to work hard enough to beat their teammates in a drill, or if they wanted to work hard enough to be the best team in the country.
Sure, many rich people work hard, but a lot of lower-income people work really hard too, often in multiple jobs.
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We've got a lot of tough choices and hard decisions and hard work ahead of us.
And you know that progress comes from hard choices and hard work, not miracles.
Camp rule number one:All guests must play hard--and work hard.
This is a hard tour and hard work wins it.
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If success in school is a function of intelligence and hard work, and less intelligent students have to work harder to achieve the same grades as their more intelligent counterparts, only hard work seems to matter in predicting career success.
The hard work of these American athletes illustrates that our country fundamentally remains a land that welcomes those seeking opportunity and willing to work hard.
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That basic idea that if you work hard, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, no matter what the circumstances of your birth, if you work hard you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home, send your own kids to college, put a little bit away for retirement.
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"I intend to work as hard as I can and to represent the people of New York to the best of my ability, to work hard to serve my constituents, to work with my colleagues wherever and whenever I can on behalf of our country -- so I am absolutely hoping to build relationships and create consensus with every senator, " she added.
Now, as David indicated, this is a hard slog, this is hard work.
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We have been working hard, and we will continue to work hard, to do just that.
"The lads are pretty disappointed after a long, hard season and a lot of hard work put in to be second again, " he said.
Hot tech companies are filled with smart, young people like Mason who work hard and play hard.
And I just want to work as hard as I can over these next 39 days to earn the privilege of being able to spend the next four years, every single day, thinking about how I can make life a little bit better for people who work hard in this country.
And he works hard, and he's going to work hard at his recovery and I'm no doctor, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see him back here this year.
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It's the basic idea that says here in this country, if you work hard, that work should be rewarded. (Applause.) If you act responsibly, you should be able to get ahead.
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