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Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and cavities you are not my doctor you are not my cure, nobody has that power, you are merely a fellow/traveler.
- Margaret Atwood
My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?
- George Bernard Shaw
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No value is attached to a mere profession of faith in Christ; only the love which is shown by works is counted genuine. Yet it is love alone which in the sight of Heaven makes any act of value.—The Faith I Live By,
- Ellen White
There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.
- Ellen White
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
- William Howard Taft
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
- Philip Yancey