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Quote by James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an

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

Other quotes by James Baldwin

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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Failure
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James Baldwin
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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

Category:
Society
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James Baldwin
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Other Quotes from
Career, Vocation
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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

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Career, Vocation

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

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Career, Vocation

Dont worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. – Source Unknown

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Career, Vocation

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

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Career, Vocation

Random Quotes

Eureka! Ive got it. – Archimedes

Category:
Ideas

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects,” Miscellanies, 1711

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Miscellaneous

C:COFFEE.POT missing (A)bort (R)etry (F)all asleep? – Author Unknown

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Coffee

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money… and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams. – Laura Miller

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Dreams