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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a car

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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Paradox
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Oscar Wilde
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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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Sky & Clouds
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Oscar Wilde
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Career, Vocation
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills

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Career, Vocation

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Career, Vocation

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

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Career, Vocation

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Career, Vocation

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I dont feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. – Imelda Staunton

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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan

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