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

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

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If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

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