We select a career (pulled either from a career profile in Earn It, Learn It or self-inspired).

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His final ordeal might have inspired great self-pity, though he displayed no hint of it.

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Apparently some of the best leadership ideas can be wrung from stand-up comedians--that is if you believe Roger Edward Jones, a management coach who has dabbled in stand-up and subsequently become inspired to add to the ever-growing mountain of books on management self-help.

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"BeagleBone has inspired numerous developers to create a wide variety of innovations from self-teaching electronic education kits to underwater robots, " said Clint Cooley, president, CircuitCo.

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These communities, inspired in part by the Jesuits and Liberation Theology, embodied a self-reliant form of development, divorced from the paternalism of the past.

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Inspired by his success, he then designed a sports shirt with the distinct self-titled logo.

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The more concrete the writing, the better: Ms Sontag's flights of fancy, for example her whimsical musings on eating and dancing, inspired by Frank O'Hara and Jasper Johns, leave an impression of self-indulgence.

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The weak economy might have inspired more students to start up their own businesses - with a steady upward entrepreneurial trend in self-employment.

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