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“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.”

World Book Helping Feelings Home Language Forget Fate Quiet Profession Pursuit Impression Merit Occupation Prey Confined Forget You Exertion

Author:Jane Austen

“Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.”

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Author:Earl Monroe

“I was in a profession that received a lot of media.”

Sports Media Profession

Author:Darrell Royal

“The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life.”

“If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.”

Ifs Actors Profession Compare Boxers

Author:Olivier Martinez

“We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.”

Want Giving Masters Profession Confused Zen Master So Confused

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.”

Littles Made Moments Causes Economy Pride Profession Mess

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

Writing Would Be Able Desire Impossible Atheism Subjects Expression Offers Sake Positive Atheism Profession Atmosphere Consistently Disobedience Civil Disobedience Trunks Satyagraha

Book:Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

“A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.”

Purpose Jesus Nations Atheism Positive Atheism Profession Establishment Identical Zeus Clauses Vishnu Establishment Clause

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.”

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.”

Trying Use Force Virtue Atheism Hero Destruction Metaphor Jew Positive Atheism Profession Bars Irrational

Author:Florence King

“It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.”

Real Country Seems Belief Atheism Bases Positive Atheism Profession Our Country Creeds Examination Bane

Book:The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters

Source: The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters

“I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated.”

People Able Jobs Felt Acting Blessed Profession Hated

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".”

Feels Years Enough Film Enjoy Behinds Fronts Lucky Cameras Profession

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.”

Trying Mean Whole Wish Dying Youth Happenings Profession Medical Fountain Getting Old Getting Older Long Life Thrust Medical Profession Fountain Of Youth

Author:Woody Allen

“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.”

People Writing Kids Profession

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.”

Ifs Thinking Lying Easy Magic Talent Fool Profession Tricks Magician

Author:David Copperfield

“I feel like I'm in the right profession.”

Feels Profession

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.”

World Doe Reason Profession

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.”

Men Body Together Form Class Teach Importance Profession Peasants Labourers

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.”

World Book Happens Cases Novel Cutting Sea Example Profession Sensible Thieves Publishing Clown Manhattan Fisherman Sly Crabs Rodeo Book Publishing

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.”

Ifs Jobs Film Half Cases Industry Focused Profession Luxury Harsh Film Industry Limelight

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events -- it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.”

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Author:Zhou Xun

“If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.”

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Author:Steve Southerland

“I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.”

Men Play Actors Acting Profession Painter Engaged

Book:The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.”

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Author:Agnes de Mille

“Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.”

War Profession Thieves Vicious Gallows

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.”

Doe Self Certain Cases Bears Self Love Abuse Profession Operations Subtle

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.”

Firsts Profession

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.”

Knowledge Horse Medicine Profession Medical Carriages Medical Profession Scientific Knowledge Horse And Carriage

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.”

Shows Poverty Dresses Profession Expected Suits Beggar Reproach Robes Rags Tenure

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.”

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Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.”

Ifs Writing Mean Profession Supposed To Be Exhausting

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.”

Knows Believe Humans Art Skills Profession

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're unattractive, they are presumed to have chosen a profession because they could not get a man.”

Ifs Men Way Profession Discrimination Chosen Attractive Unattractive

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”

Knows Men Profession Practise

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.”

Police Profession Driving Drivers Get Back Racing Motorcycle Racing Driver

Book:On My Own: The Years Since The White House

Source: On My Own: The Years Since The White House

“Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.”

Feelings Dangerous Becoming Balance Conflict Universal Profession Poetry Is Resolution Shifting Ultras

Author:May Sarton

“The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?”

Way Lonely Profession Rough Cleaning Gracious Vacancy

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?”

Men Long Ability Brain Teacher Doctors Profession Lawyer Every Man Ministers Acknowledge Gentleman Incompetent

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.”

Writing Profession

Book:The prime of life

Source: The prime of life

“Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, understands that peace must be enforced by superior military might. The certainty of defeat is the only effective deterrent we can use to maintain peace. Furthermore, we can be strong without being aggressive.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.”

“Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.”

Profession Cant Parrots

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”

Source: Making Sense

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