Lonely people have their own bog.

The most dangerous mindset in business is believing you’ve already succeeded.

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux.