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Professional Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
- A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit…
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- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists… — John Avlon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I… — Travis Barker
- Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide. — Charles Barkley
- The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry
- I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. — Roland Barthes
- The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
- Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears… — Jacqueline Bisset
- A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving… — Elizabeth Blackwell