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Tag Name "Profession" (937)

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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion. To the inquiry of What religion? the Earl said, Men of sense never tell it.
Gilbert Burnet
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nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
Gerda Lerner
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Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.
Phil Plait
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words finds analysis painful and boring and is a creature of physical ebullience.
Doris Humphrey
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You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.
John H. Johnson
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I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.
Ronald Reagan
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
George Bernard Shaw
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Living is a hazardous profession.
Tobsha Learner
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Jane Smiley
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My art and profession is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
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I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
Ken Jeong
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As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
Lorin Maazel
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Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham
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You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.
Mitzi Gaynor
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work they do need to get another profession.
Estelle
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My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396
Hans Werner Henze
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
Robert Genn
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The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.
Paavo Haavikko
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
Brendan Behan
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It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
Aaron Rodgers
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Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.
Theodore Roosevelt
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