The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the f

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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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

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didnt, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. – Honore de Balzac

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

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