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Quote by George Saunders
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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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

Category:
Fear
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George Saunders
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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like Im in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. – George Saunders

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positive
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George Saunders
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The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders

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Fear
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George Saunders
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Other Quotes from
Society
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Society

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Society

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. – Oliver Herford

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Society

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in todays society. – Samantha Morton

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Society

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Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself… – Gwen Davis, Marriage, 1981

Category:
Adversity

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Baby or Adoption

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. – William Gilmore Simms

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Tact, Tactfulness

What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

Category:
Learning