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Once he became a full-time Yellowstone resident and settled into his daily routine of watching the Druids, Rick found that he didn’t want to do anything else. Strictly speaking, he worked only forty hours a week, but he came to the park every morning regardless of whether he was on the clock. When he wasn’t officially on duty, he didn’t wear his un
... See moreNate Blakeslee • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
“Have the Texas delegation record its vote for Garner on the first ballot, and then before the result is announced switch to Roosevelt.” Rayburn declined. “We’ve got a lot of people up here from Texas who’ve never been to a convention before, and they’ve got to vote for Garner a few times. How many ballots can you hold your lines without breaking?”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Leadership
Patrick Devlin • 7 cards
Doing the hard work together
David Hood • 11 cards
ONE DAY, we promised ourselves, we would leave them.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Pay for work.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
It is a commitment of our own choosing, one that we have lovingly made; it is the manner in which we identify ourselves.
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. . .if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will not be one man going to the moon, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.”
Dan Heath • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
The United States was founded on the noble idea that people have “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Each of these three unalienable rights—so essential to the American character that the founders saw them as God-given—requires a stable home.