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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off? – Joan Manley

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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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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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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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