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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe

[But increasingly, cost and convenience aren't the only factors driving doctors online. Patients themselves are growing Internet savvy and less tolerant of the medical profession's technological backwardness.] Patients go online and bring you articles from the medical journals, ... You have to go online to keep up with them.

Barbara Bishop

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Will Rogers

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Derek Bok

The choir members come from all over the country and lots of different professions.

Sandy Thoma

We're one of the most reviled subsets of one of the most reviled professions. We're going to lose the battle every time.

Dana Milbank

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

Albert Gore

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

John Newton

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Miriam Beard

There's going to be this surge in demand for care just as the supplies of certain health professions are being depleted.

Jean Moore

In my view (a key reason members join is ) because they can network with other business leaders outside of their professions.

Pat Jenkins

We're kind of scurrying around. It's very fluid. Certainly this has gotten all of the nursing home profession's attention after Katrina, and so everybody's making plans to evacuate. But there are a lot of difficulties on having enough resources for transportation.

Matt Robinson

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field.

Daniel Callahan

If you look at the obligations of the health professions and doctors in particular, UN standards, World Medical Association standards, AMA standards, the responsibility of the physician in war or peace is to improve peoples' health and not to inflict pain or harm.

Leonard Rubenstein

We publish for eight of the 10 fastest-growing professions in the U.S., because of the explosion in health-care workers.

Randy Charles

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

One of the things I will bring is the administrative ability to lead an office. In my prior professions, I have administered offices.

Kathryn B. Hendrickson

A very high proportion of that job growth is occurring in high-paying professions. This is a demand-driven market and demand vastly exceeds supply.

Mark Vitner

We know clearly from the orientation that Pat and I do that the clinical staff are coming to Griffin because of the approach to patient care. It's the reason they went into their professions when they were in school.

William Powanda

The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.

Eduardo Chillida

That's a lot of money, and it's going to affect the way undergraduates are going to be picking their professions when they get out.

Ed Hermes