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We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.
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They meant that public officers should owe their whole service to the Government and to the people.
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A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.
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Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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I have been obliged to content myself through life with saying what I mean in the plainest of plain language, than which, I suppose, there is no habit more ruinous to a man's prospects of advancement.
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Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree.
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Look before you leap.
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If you’re going to do a job, do it right.
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Wording taken from a viewer's transcription of the video, not from a published transcript — we searched and found none: Cal Maritime's own newsroom carries only a pre-event announcement, which is where the 22 April 2017 date comes from. The words are Rigsby's father's, recounted by Rigsby, so the attribution here is to the speech rather than to either man directly.
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Rather be an hour early than a minute late.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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If you want a thing done, do it yourself.