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

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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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People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. – John Dos Passos

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin

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