Another option is to actually learn how to become a better investor and work hard to make your retirement stash grow at a rate higher than the 7% to 10% annually that you might expect from a index fund or with a financial advisor.

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And I believe we can work very hard to have this job engine grow even more powerful.

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She's going to have to work very hard to show that she's taken this experience and used it to grow into a more mature, thoughtful, tolerant and compassionate person.

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Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, our core mission is to grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.

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Over the past decades, entrepreneurs through hard work and planning, achieved attracting foreign investors, allowing Cyprus to progress and grow economically, and building an infrastructure to turn Cyprus into an International Services Centre.

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Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.

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For one, the essence of the American dream: how a little Cuban-American kid on the margins of mainstream America could grow up with confidence, have the opportunity to become an engineer thanks to the hard work of his parents who could barely speak English, and then go on, choosing to become a poet who is now asked to speak to, for and about the entire nation.

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