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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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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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

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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. – Molly Ringwald

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