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P J O Rourke
: Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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Elvis Costello :
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
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Logan Pearsall Smith :
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Hermann Hesse :
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Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.
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Count Leo Tolstoy :
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Jimmy Page :
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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Mother Teresa :
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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.
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Jimi Hendrix :
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I got a bad, bad feeling my baby don't live here no more... But thats alright i still got my guitar.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a learning experience. It makes me feel less stupid.
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Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.
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Saddam Hussein was reduced to the Unabomber — Ted Kaczynski — a nutcase hiding in the sticks. Sure, the terrorism by his supporters is frightening. Hence, its name, 'terrorism.' Killing innocent people by surprise is not called 'a thousand points of light.' But, as frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers. The minute somebody sets off a suicide bomb, you can be sure that person doesn't have 'career prospects.' And no matter how horrendous a terrorist attack is, it's still conducted by losers. Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an Air Force.
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