"To take those fools in clerical garb seriously……" — Albert Einstein

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• In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by… — Noam Chomsky
• So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar… — Tori Amos
• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a… — William Hazlitt
• Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. — Roger Mahony
• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because… — Bel Kaufman
• London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the… — Nick Cohen
• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the… — J. C. R. Licklider
• If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget.… — Ken Robinson
• You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles… — Richard de Bury
• It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as… — Soren Kierkegaard
• Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper… — Robert Farrar Capon
• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the… — Christopher Hitchens

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