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1 " The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. "
― Lily Tomlin
2 " I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants. "
― , Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
3 " Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. "
― R.D. Laing
4 " Just for a while" : Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans.Join the Rat Race " just for a while." Concentrate on your career " just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend " just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs " just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box " just for a while. "
5 " Solitude sets you free from the rat race of life. "
― , How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
6 " We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it "
― Adriano Bulla , New Age Spirit
7 " We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it. "
8 " I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. "
9 " Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky. "
― Fennel Hudson , A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
10 " The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. "
11 " A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams. "
― Shannon Mullen , See What Flowers
12 " If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. "
― Bertolt Brecht
13 " A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent " were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to " cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in. "
14 " The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. "
