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• The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ambiguous, Cease

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.9, Bantam

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• The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Simple, World Love, Forgiving

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Numbers, Sorrow

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• If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Safety, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.48, John Wiley & Sons

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• Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Hands, People

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

  Ally Carter

  Liars, Sound, Fool

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

  Wallace Stegner

  Memories, Mind, Serious

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.12, Penguin

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• Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Anger, Starting Over

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki

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• We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Names, Scotland

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• ...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed.

  Shannon Hale

  Love You, Thinking, Honor

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Mad, Eccentric

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can’t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Latin, Doctors, Long

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Destiny, Use

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• In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Men, Criminals, Tribes

  "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.

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• Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Knowing, Eight

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• A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Full Time Jobs

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• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Giving Up, Book, Moving

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• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Stupid, Mean

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

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• So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Heart, Thinking

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• History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

  Henry Adams

  History, Fleas, Irritated

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

  Bob Hope

  Real, Golf, Pay

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  Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Occupation, Jazz

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• Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

  Enya

  Music, Mirrors, Needs

  "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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