"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Inspiration
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My brother wants me to find him a summer job.
He asked me to check with my boss, my friends, my business associates. Then he asked me to run off 100 copies of his resume, call up the employment agencies, and write an ad for the Positions Wanted section of the newspaper.
I asked him what he wanted to call himself in the ad.
He said, "A self-starter!"
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"There is a wisdom of the head, and ... there is a wisdom of the heart."
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times
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Before I could start my first job right out of college, I had to present evidence that I was a U.S. citizen. I showed up with my driver's license and birth certificate. The clerk looked at my driver's license and copied down some information.
She then picked up my birth certificate and gave it a long look.
"Is anything wrong?" I asked.
"Yes," she said. "I can't find the expiration date."
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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