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- - - - “I believe strongly that this ‘dignity’ is something one can meaningfully strive for throughout one’s career. Those ‘great’ butlers like Mr. Marshall who have it, I am sure, acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience”(page 27).
        
        Stevens is one of the most dedicated workers that we had read about his semester. His entire life was his job as a butler. He strive to have dignity and he thought the only way to do this was through his work. From this, he dedicated all his time to his job to gain the experience necessary to feel dignity.
  - - - “Mae drove back to the Circle, determined that when she got back to campus, she would stay there. She’d had enough of the chaos of her family, of Mercer, her wretched hometown. She hadn’t even asked her parents about the SeeChange cameras, had she? Home was madness. On campus, all was familiar. On campus there was no friction. She didn’t need to explain herself, or the future of the world, to the Circlers, who implicitly understood her and the planet and the way it had to be and soon would be”(203).
        
        This quote shows that throughout her time at The Circle, Mae began to care less about the people in her life. Her parents clearly weren't comfortable with what Mae's company wanted of them but she didn't care about their feelings. Instead she cared more about her work and what the company would think.
  - - - “Because as far as getting rich is concerned, love can be an impediment. Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift, and kill. But whereas achieving a massive bank balance demonstrably attracts fine physical specimens desperate to give their love in exchange, achieving love tends to do the opposite. It dampens the fire in the steam furnace of ambition, robbing of essential propulsion an already fraught upriver journey to the heart of financial success”(23).
        
        This book, along with each chapter being an instruction that requires dedication, also talks describes the work needed to be put in in order to be successful at getting rich. This quote is just one example showing that you need to be fully dedicated and nothing can be a distraction.
- - - - “Your résumé doesn’t tell me much. Is your interest in being an artist or is your interest in working in book production? I hesitated. I do dabble in photography. But obviously, that doesn’t pay the bills”(pdf 5).
        
        The very beginning of this story begins with Candace making a sacrifice for her work. She knew that photography would not make her enough money and since her family needed money, she took a job that she didn't know anything about and wasn't completely sure that she would enjoy.
  - - - "It’s okay for me, a good job. I didn’t do that well in school, after all. It was tougher for Deep. He did three semesters at technical college. He was always saying he deserved better. Better than this, anyway. I would nod and agree with him, but I never told him what I wanted to tell him, which was hey, Deepak, when you say that you deserve better, even if I agree with you, you are kind of also implying that I don’t deserve better, which, maybe I don’t, maybe this is about where I belong in the grand scheme of things, in terms of high-end/low-end for me as a person, but I wish you wouldn’t say it, because whenever you do, it makes me feel a sharp bit of sadness and then, for the rest of the day, a kind of low-grade crumminess".
        
        This quote from the story very accurately shows the sacrifice made when doing this job. He took the job because he didn't do well in college and now he believes he doesn't deserve any better. He not only made a sacrifice in his happiness, but also his mental health.
- - - - “In this very attitude did I sit when I called to him, rapidly stating what it was I wanted him to do—namely, to examine a small paper with me. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, ‘I would prefer not to.’ I sat awhile in perfect silence, rallying my stunned faculties. Immediately it occurred to me that my ears had deceived me, or Bartleby had entirely misunderstood my meaning. I repeated my request in the clearest tone I could assume. But in quite as clear a one came the previous reply, ‘I would prefer not to.’”(7).
        
        Bartleby refusing to do work is the first action of his in the story that goes against the beliefs of society. It can be seen how unusual it is with this quote because of the narrators reaction to it. When he continues to refuse to do anything, everyone else around him views him as an outcast as well and think he must not be normal.
  - - - “She was getting carried away with making up a story for herself. She might just as well have been saying I was “cured.” If it had been that simple all along, I thought, I wish she’d given me clear instructions before, then I wouldn’t have had to go to such lengths to find out how to be normal”(63).
        
        Throughout her whole life, no one approved of Keiko working at the convenience store even though that is what brought her the most happiness. She felt the pressures of society from everyone in her life. All she wanted was to be seen as normal and she thought she found that through her job but everyone else thought of it a strange.