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  2. Work ethic - Wikipedia

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    Work ethic is a belief that work and diligence have a moral benefit and an inherent ability, virtue or value to strengthen character and individual abilities. [1] Desire or determination to work serves as the foundation for values centered on the importance of work or industrious work.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    the entire degree programme a student takes at university an individual subject a student takes at university court shoe: a women's dress shoe with a heel (US: pump, q.v.) a type of athletic shoe used for sports played on an indoor court, such as volleyball or squash (UK similar: plimsoll or regionally pump) cowboy

  4. 115 Hard Work Quotes That Will Motivate Us To Persevere - AOL

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    47. "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” – Vince Lombardi. 48. "Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of ...

  5. Hardworking families - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "hardworking families" or "working families" is an example of a glittering generality in contemporary political discourse.It is used in the politics of the United Kingdom and of the United States, and was heavily used by the political parties in the campaign of the 2005 United Kingdom general election and the 2007 Australian federal election where the Rudd Labor Party used the term ...

  6. Achievement ideology - Wikipedia

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    Achievement ideology is the belief that one reaches a socially perceived definition of success through hard work and education. In this view, factors such as gender, race/ethnicity, economic background, social networks, or neighborhoods/geography are secondary to hard work and education or are altogether irrelevant in the pursuit of success.

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    An example of a noun phrase that includes all of the above-mentioned elements is that rather attractive young college student to whom you were talking. Here that is the determiner, rather attractive and young are adjectival pre-modifiers, college is a noun adjunct, student is the noun serving as the head of the phrase, and to whom you were ...

  8. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Another definition of "sentence length" is the number of clauses in the sentence, whereas the "clause length" is the number of phones in the clause. [ 12 ] Research by Erik Schils and Pieter de Haan by sampling five texts showed that two adjacent sentences are more likely to have similar lengths than two non-adjacent sentences, and almost ...

  9. Hard work (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Hard work may refer to a distinct but related concept of diligence. It may also refer to: Hard Work (album), by John Handy; Hard Work (book), by Polly Toynbee