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• It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Waiting Rooms, Long

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• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

  Harry Reasoner

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

  Jules Renard

  Money, Writing, Literature

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• Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Years, Tv Shows

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• In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Wish, Looks

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• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  Mickey Rourke

  Choices, Acting, Down And

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Order

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• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Margaret Sanger

  Past, Reality, Silence

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• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

  Charles Schumer

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Skeptic, Persons

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

  Peter Singer

  Nursing, Engineering, Law

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

  Peter Singer

  Real, Commitment, Care

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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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

  Thinking, Evil, Deregulation

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

  Sydney Smith

  Beauty, Running, Trying

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doctors, Males, Lawyer

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

  Edith Stein

  Healthy, Needs, Able

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.10, ICS Publications

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• I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Lions

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Business, Law, Shops

  "The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family". Book by Jean H. Baker, p. 262, 1997.

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• When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.

  James Surowiecki

  Clever, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Mixed Motives". www.newyorker.com. November 8, 2004.

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• In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Boys, College

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• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ethical, Economist

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• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wise, Commitment, College

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• I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Joy, Lucky

  "50 Years of Tough Questions and 'Thank You, Mr. President'" by David Stout, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2013.

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