making people bigger
There's nothing to me in the world as rewarding as making people do things they don't believe they could do. You've made 'em bigger in their eyes. Bigger in their family's eyes. Bigger in the community's eyes. Nobody will ever do them a favor that great, but they'll hate you for the rest of their life because of the pressure you had put on them. Yet that is very rewarding to me. Jay Slabaugh, interviewed by Studs Terkel. In American Dreams: Lost and Found (1980). Pantheon Books, New York. pg 38.
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