Clerical Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
— Noam Chomsky
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar…
— Tori Amos
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
— William Hazlitt
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Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
— Roger Mahony
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the…
— Bel Kaufman
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to…
— Nick Cohen
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the…
— Ken Robinson
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are…
— Richard de Bury
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when…
— Christopher Hitchens
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
— Albert Einstein
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not…
— William Ralph Inge
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Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally…
— Ivan Illich
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I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had…
— Giovanni Ribisi
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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
— William P. Leahy
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It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St.…
— Pope Francis
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I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.
— Jim Butcher
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The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
— Lev Grossman
Who Wrote These Clerical Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Clerical Quotes as follows: