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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

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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Innocence
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Experience
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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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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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Career, Vocation

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. – Mother Theresa

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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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Having a child, thats always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. – Marilyn Monroe

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. – Muriel Rukeyser

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I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. Its just moving on with its efforts. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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