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"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." - Raylan Givens

"If you're gonna keep talkin I'm gonna put you in the trunk" - also Raylan Givens

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I don’t really like that first quote because, at least from what I have observed, really shitty people tend to operate in circles, as do really great people. It is perhaps not until you make a massive life change, such as moving city, that you realise that assholes were dominating all of your previous social circles.

I mean, that is a valid solution. If you're a highly liberal person and you're in conservative central, you will be seen as the asshole. Or maybe it's something more tame like being a sports buff outside of work among a sea of techies who talk about nothing but programming. It's all relative.

Either way, the quote to me reflects a need to either change yourself or your environment.

When it comes to jobs, you could be standing in Asshole Central, though.

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