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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throug

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too. – George Saunders

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The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

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Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. – Carrie Latet, 2006

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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. – Lewis Mumford

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I dont think we live in a particularly equal society. – Sienna Miller

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Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. – Author Unknown

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