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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
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The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
May 16, 1912
Died:
October 31, 2008
(aged 96)
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