"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits."

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Source : "5 guidelines to help find a more rewarding career" by Sepha Schiffman, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2000.

Studs Terkel

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“My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear”
“One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.”
“You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.”
“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”
“I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.”
“I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam
“The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant. This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.”
“I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.”

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