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Joseph Campbell Quotes: I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.
         

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.


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