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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Sometimes you might have to work so annoyingly hard, like one close friend of mine did, that you refuse to leave.
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.
Each and every one is an example of how in America, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is or what you look like, you can make it if you work hard.
Today, the Department of Labor is working to restore the basic bargain that built our country: that no matter what you look like or where you come from, if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead.
And I know how hard you all work, and practicing even when you don't feel like it sometimes, right, and lugging heavy instruments around when you don't feel like it, pushing yourselves to learn new pieces, or getting that last measure just right.
And so the current moment also poses a challenge to folks like you, who work so hard to give advice to policymakers, especially at times like this.
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And if you work hard enough, if you believe in yourself, you can earn an award just like this in a few decades...
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"On a ukulele, you have to work quite hard to make it sound like music, " he said.
You turn down acquisition offers because you need to run the show, and you feel like your team is the best in the world and you can do anything with hard work.
Eventually you can get it all to work much like TiVo, storing and retrieving shows on the hard drive, but in more awkward and less useful ways.
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