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Quote by Elvis Costello
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. - Elvis Costell

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

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

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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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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

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Career, Vocation

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

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If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. – Barack Obama

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The whole American Idol way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if Id even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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I cant tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe Ive got a good bead on myself. – Dolly Parton

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