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• Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.

  Titian

  Mood, Paint, Produce

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• Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Every Man

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• The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Work, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Xist Publishing

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Style, Expansion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

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• I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

  Mason Cooley

  I Can

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• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Passion, People, Links

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• No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.

  Thomas Huxley

  Exercise, Men, Wealth

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• Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.

  Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

  Country, Taken, Numbers

  Guillaume Thomas François RAYNAL, John Obadiah JUSTAMOND (1783). “A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated ... by J. Justamond, M. A. The third edition: revised and corrected. With maps adapted to the work and a copious index”, p.349

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• Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

  Kim Gandy

  Jobs, Police, Architect

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• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Taken, Responsibility, Law

  "The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina" by Gerda Lerner, Ch. 5, 1969.

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• The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

  Madeleine Albright

  Education, World, Firsts

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• Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Religious, Believe, Fall

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.444

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• In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Reflection, Reality

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• Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to keep this ideology and this drive under control. Science is here no different from other institutions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Achievement, Democracy, Different

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• . . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Class, Careers

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.355, Cambridge University Press

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• Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Technology, Goal

  "His Master's Voice". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1983.

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• my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Doctors, Three, Months

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97

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• To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

  Vicki Baum

  Children, Writing, Might

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

  Susan B. Anthony

  President, Salary, Noble

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• [Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.

  Michael Kosser

  Moving, Writing, Mourning

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