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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… — Noam Chomsky
- So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was… — Tori Amos
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — 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 I am… — Bel Kaufman
- London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and… — Nick Cohen
- My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — 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. Children are… — Ken Robinson
- You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the… — Richard de Bury
- It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this… — Soren Kierkegaard
- Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon
- Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz… — Christopher Hitchens