#profess

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game. ↗

— Bobby Hull

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different. ↗

— Jean Alesi

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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗