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Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff (re-release)

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If all we ask from each other is the effort that we put in, we will create a world full of effort and of hard labor and of cobras. But if what we ask from each other is to produce something meaningful, we will create a world full of meaning.

Azim Shariff

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