#contractor

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

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Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. ↗

— Brock Yates

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If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. ↗

— Robert Metcalfe

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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. ↗

— Mitch Pileggi

#dad #did #education #eighth #eighth grade

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#contractor #design #film #ibm #interface

Los Angeles Home Remodeling Contractors – MDM General Contractors offer home remodeling and renovations Remodeling Contractors services in Los Angeles. ↗

— bathroom remodelers

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