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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas More

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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Literature
John Morley

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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Professions and Professionals
Ogden Nash

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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
Preachers and Preaching
Sir Isaac Newton

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A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Journalism and Journalists
Lord Northcliffe

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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature
Jules Renard

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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
Heroes and Heroism
Will Rogers

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten

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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Children
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
Professions and Professionals
George Bernard Shaw

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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
Faith
George Bernard Shaw

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Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writers and Writing
Georges Simenon

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The three sexes are men, women, and professors.
Men and Women
J. E. Spingarn

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politicians and Politics
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
Professions and Professionals
Frank Tyger

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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Literature
Tristan Tzara

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Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.
Professions and Professionals
Source Unknown

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Those that are silent profess consent.
Silence
Source Unknown

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Professions and Professionals
Virginia Woolf

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun