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• The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Simple, College

  "Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

  Mitch Daniels

  Waiting, Tonight, Ladders

  "GOP blasts Obama for engaging in class warfare". www.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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• If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Integrity, Real, Ambition

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• Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

  Warren Buffett

  Integrity, Passion, Focus

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• It's important to be qualified, but if election 2016 is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton's gonna be the next president, because she's been in office and in government longer than anybody else.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Office, Competition

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Looks

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• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Names, Giving

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brain, Mind, Generations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.359

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• I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Remarkable, Spectacular

  "Why bother having a resume?" by Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com. March 17, 2008.

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• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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• Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

  Richard Grasso

  Monday, Morning, America

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• Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Order, Gentleman, Enemy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.268, Macmillan

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• He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Selfish, Love Is

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• Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Eye, Looks

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Soul, Tasks, Actors

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

  Taryn Manning

  Men, Done, Goes On

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

  Walter Martin

  Rocks, Years, Band

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Moments, Persian

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.

  Darius McCrary

  Challenges, Different, Burning

  Source: michaelfairmansoaps.com

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• Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Mean, Looks

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• Frank Marshall is very level headed and wonderful to work with. He he has a resume that is probably twelve miles long. As a human being he is so unassuming and is also consistent and so nice to everyone, he treats everyone on the set with great respect, it doesn't matter who they are and that says a lot about him.

  Paul Walker

  Nice, Long, Twelve

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Men, Relaxation, Use

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