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Which problem are you still chipping away at?

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Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work

Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact closing prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.

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John Lewis

U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
There are many battles. There’s so much that needs to be done. We need to protect the environment. Save this little planet. Not just this little piece of real estate we call America, but save the planet.

Academy of Achievement interview, Chicago, 10 June 2004 source ↗

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Tom Lubbock Art critic
The mystery of summoning up words. Where are they in the mind, in the brain? They appear to be an agency from nowhere. They exist somewhere in our ground or in our air. They come from unknown darkness. From a place we normally don't think about.
Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗
Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
We have all these interesting challenges now. No one knows whether automation and robotics, nanotechnology, will kill more jobs than it creates. If it does, that presents a serious problem. What are we going to do? Have a few of us work to support everybody else, or shorten the workweek for everybody? If so, how do we get from here to there? No one knows yet how we’re going to stop cyber terrorism from wrecking honest discourse in democracy and maybe putting our very lives at risk.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Rosa Parks Civil-rights activist
We still have a long way to go, we still have many obstacles and many challenges to face. It’s far from perfect, and it may never be, but I think as long as we do the best we can to improve conditions, then people will be benefited.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Shinya Yamanaka Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
we can select one gene out of those 20,000 genes, and completely destroy that one particular gene so that we can understand the function of that particular gene. I got very interested in that technology. It was 1992 or 1993 when I graduated from my Ph.D. school. So I decided to study — I decided to learn about knockout mouse technology. But at that time in Japan, only a few scientists were working on knockout mouse technology
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 2008 source ↗

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