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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Discipline, Police

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• My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Men, Law

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• install me in any profession
  Save this damn'd profession of writing,
  where one needs one's brains all the time.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Brain, Needs

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Voice, Government

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Jobs, Bankers

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• Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Doe

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.84

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• ... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Work, Numbers

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• A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

  Samuel Richardson

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Jobs, Order

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• I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Education, Long, Reason

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

  John Grisham

  Father, Decision, Lawyer

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016

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• The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

  Robert Darnton

  Oxford, England, 1960s

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• To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.

  Maurice Samuel

  Dream, Opportunity, Missing

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• He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

  Henry R. Towne

  Work, Design, Doe

  "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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• If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Caring, Vanity

  "Andy Warhol's Interview Interview: James Franco". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2013.

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• When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

  Christopher Reeve

  Father, Responsibility, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, People, Rejection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

  Joe Mantegna

  Thinking, Blue, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

  Rooney Mara

  Psychiatry

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

  Jude Law

  Reading, Directors, World

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Perfect

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• Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Giving, Joy

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