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  • One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

    Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

    Hero   Race   Champion  
    1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.
  • In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

    Men   Thinking   Race  
    Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 179), 1956.
  • My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

    Race   Rejection   Rats  
    Song: It Don't Satisfy Me, Album: Under a Raging Moon
  • The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

    Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
  • The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

    "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.
  • It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

    Race   May   Rats  
    Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.147, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

  • Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

    School   Race   Rats  
  • What goes around, comes around.

    Karma   Respect   Revenge  
    Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin
  • Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

    College   Race   Two  
    Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”
  • I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

    Race   Mind   Rats  
  • I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

    Race   Missing   Rats  
  • They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

    Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.689, Simon and Schuster
  • Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

    Tired   Men   Clouds  
    Song: Alan Watts Blues, Album: Poetic Champions Compose
  • Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

    Father   Winning   Race  
    Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
  • Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us in our daily life, to the extent that we have to compete with the rat race in the world out there, we're collaborating with other people at the same time. The two are hand in hand.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Myths and legends die hard in America.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.406, Simon and Schuster
  • For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

    Running   Race   Long  
  • Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

    Winning   Race   America  
    2000 In The Times, Dec 26.
  • I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

    Dream   Failure   Mean  
  • If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

    Race   Rats   Rat Race  
  • I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

    Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.90, Jester House Publishing
  • Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

    Mean   Race   Rats  
  • A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

    Mean   Race   People  
    Source: www.aboutfilm.com
  • The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other assholes on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.

    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.

  • 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.

  • I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

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