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"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"Employment stereotypes you."
"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
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"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
"In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."
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