Quotes with professions

  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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  • Henry Brooks Adams Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Locke I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Morley Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Arthur Erickson Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Junius The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Umberto Eco The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • John Gay Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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