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• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  Natalia Makarova

  Relaxation, Body, Physicality

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• I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

  Winston Churchill

  Epilepsy, Games, Play

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

  Julian Assange

  Pride, Intelligence Services, Gentleman

  "We Are Drowning in Material". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. July 20, 2015.

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• Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

  Leos Carax

  Cinema, Territory, Way

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• Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Politics, Handicrafts, Poisonous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

  Charles Jencks

  Hate, Medical Profession, Teeth

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• The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Law, Liberty

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• The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Artist, Doctors

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• Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

  Noah Baumbach

  People

  "Noah Baumbach’s Graduate Dance". Interview with Michael Hafford, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

  Henry R. Towne

  Work, Design, Doe

  "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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• In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Jobs, Order

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• My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

  John Grisham

  Father, Decision, Lawyer

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016

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• A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

  Samuel Richardson

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Men, Law

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• Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

  Julian Assange

  Long, Want, Facts

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• If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

  Steve Southerland

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.

  Maurice Samuel

  Dream, Opportunity, Missing

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• The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Discipline, Police

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• I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

  Jude Law

  Reading, Directors, World

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Believe, Denial, World

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• I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

  Joe Mantegna

  Thinking, Blue, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Jobs, Bankers

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• I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stuff, Kind, Macro

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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