"When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school."

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Source : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

Donald Ray Pollock

#School Quotes #Fifty Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“Work is much more fun than fun.”
“We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.”
“In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.”
“There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.”
“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”
“Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, p.150, Del Rey
“Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.”

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