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“Do you have any accomplishments in your last job?”
“I am personally responsible for several new rules in the employee handbook.”
“Did you write them?”
“That’s not what I said.”
 
When you’re driven to distinguish yourself as an exceptionally distinguished sheep, you are still a sheep. William Deresiewicz. ‘Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life’
 
My wife asked me if I could clear the kitchen table.
I had to take a running start, but I made it, with an inch to spare.