Why should U.S. citizens get a benefit not from education or hard work but from something they had nothing to do with -- where they were born?
Fishing allows us to eat, without the danger of hunting or the hard work of farming.
And, the only reason you or I accept the dollar in exchange for our hard work or goods is because we trust that someone else will accept it in turn.
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The contract and its structure made Haynesworth financially secure, snuffing out the limited motivation that Haynesworth had to improve or work hard.
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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.
Instead, talk about the results of your genius, hard work or other talents.
Being successful at marriage or a relationship takes hard work and sacrifice.
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All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
Profits, economic growth and jobs are ultimately created by the ingenuity and hard work of millions (or, globally, billions) of people who come to work every day, put their heads down and accomplish the tasks set before them.
"I believe in two or three days of very hard work we could have a balanced budget agreement, " he said.
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The days of surviving or even prospering based on hard work, graft, defending well and taking advantage of set plays are gone.
But some of the most mesmerizing work space photographs in this collection belong to the lesser-known: the coal miner working nearly half a mile underground, or the two astronauts hard at work 200 miles above it.
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But for those who get the grades they need, celebration will be uppermost in their minds - and for others falling short of the minimum needed for that coveted college or university place then the hard work begins.
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As Michael Specter elegantly laid out in the New Yorker in 2002, the question on Armstrong has always been whether he is physically superior to everyone else simply by dint of genetics and hard work, or whether he took enhancers.
It doesn't matter how well a player does, how hard they work or how much the fans like them, if they do not get 20 goals - and I mean in the Premier League not in all competitions - then Liverpool will struggle to make up the gap on the top two.
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That, nearly a decade after social media arrived many organizations are well behind the curve, is an indictment of how hard our organizations still are to work with, or for that matter, how hard it is for businesses to keep up.
As an adult, he or she finds it hard to get work.
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Or will we be a place where if you work hard, you can get ahead no matter who you are or how you started out?
White should also recognize that the SEC faces the same talent pool issues as do all federal bureaucracies: Is it preferable to hire some Ivy Leaguer from a white-shoe law firm for three years or to reward and cultivate the hard work of an SEC employee seeking to make a career in regulation?
People may have a hard time focusing on work or other everyday activities.
Or we can choose to do the hard work of forging common ground, and commit ourselves to the steady pursuit of progress.
Depending on the boss and the company, it was a day for taking assistant out to lunch, giving them gifts or just thanking them for all their hard work throughout the year.
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The public servants who work in America's schools -- whether they're principals or teachers, or counselors or coaches -- work long and hard on behalf of our children and they deserve our gratitude.
Likewise, if you strive to complete a number of math problems in a designated amount of time, you'll do a better job than if you try for a lower number or you just tell yourself to work hard.
The joke our genes and our years play on us is to leave us, as parents, forever with this weird column of figures scribbled on our souls, ones that make no sense, no matter how long you squint at them or how hard you try to make them work.
And if all of you are committed to making sure that the person standing next to you, and their kids and their grandkids -- that everybody in this city and everybody in this country can unleash his or her potential, if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get a fair shake and get a fair shot.
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And this one is a pet peeve of mine, specifically because I work with people that have gone to Phoenix and other places online and knowing what I went through at brick and mortar state school, there is no doubt in my mind that these people DID NOT work nearly as hard or learn and took the classes I had to.
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There, intelligence and hard work mattered more than connections or your family name.
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The series thus satisfies a secret or vicarious longing for elegance without imposing the hard work that's necessary to achieve it in reality.
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