#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 don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. ↗

— Karen Allen

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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. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves. ↗

— Christine Baranski

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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. ↗

— Dave Barry

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