"I don't take schoolwork with me when I travel -- I just work very hard when I'm at school in Guangzhou, " he said.

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And then, once they start work, their students pay attention and work hard (when I asked Finns whether there were some families who despised education and resented schools, they seemed puzzled by the question).

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As was true when I was in Congress, I would not be here without the hard work and dedication of staff.

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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.

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I've always believed that our system of free enterprise works best when it rewards hard work.

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When I think of a handwritten edition of The Hobbit, my first thought is of dwarves hard at work at their desks, the sound of their pens scratching on paper echoing through the halls of Moria.

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First, because folks who work hard should be able to make a decent living, I kept a promise I made when I campaigned for this office and cut taxes for 95 percent of working Americans.

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