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• Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Want, Economy

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

  John Travolta

  Sports, Three, World

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

  Paavo Haavikko

  Writing, Hobbies

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• I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

  Eppu Nuotio

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

  Ximenes Doudan

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

  Randy Carlyle

  Sports, Hockey, Hands

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• I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

  Isaac Newton

  Atheist, Men, Practice

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Motivational, Time

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• When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Depressing, Destiny, Men

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• You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

  John Romero

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

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• Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Passion, One Day, Purpose

  Twitter post from May 23, 2012

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• There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Simple, Goal

  "On Guerrilla Warfare".

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• Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

  Ha Jin

  Writing, Thinking, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012

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• All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Program, Institutions

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• All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

  Brian Swimme

  People, Essentials, Stories

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• Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Saint

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• Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Passion, Men, Preaching

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• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

  Wilder Penfield

  Hate, Brain, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Believe, Tree

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• Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

  Harriet Martineau

  Class, Excellence, Moral

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Thinking, Ideas, Light

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• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Jargon, Hallmark

  Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.

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