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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work… — David Murray Cowie Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as… — Gerald McRaney Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession. — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
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But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his… — Dick Latvala Copy Share Image
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Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
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