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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Brooks Adams

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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Influence
Henri Frederic Amiel

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Writers and Writing
Richard Bach

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Professions and Professionals
Francis Bacon

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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Computers
Dave Barry

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley

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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Wives
Vera Brittain

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A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Experts
Alistair Cooke

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Professions and Professionals
George Eliot

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
Politicians and Politics
Billy Boy Franklin

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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Acting and Actors
Katharine Hepburn

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It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Acting and Actors
Katharine Hepburn

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Politicians and Politics
Muhammad Hijazi

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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
Envy
William Hogarth

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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Theory
Sherlock Holmes

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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Integrity
Junius

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Hope
Garson Kanin

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My art and profession is to live.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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