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"An idea is a feat of association." »Robert Frost
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten
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"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." »Alistair Cooke
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"The National Rifle association are the gun nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus
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"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." »Frank Deford
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"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man." »Ralph J. Smith
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"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover
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"There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware." »Francis A. Carter
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"Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association." »Saint Augustine
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"Getting kicked out of the American Bar association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club." »Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." »Bette Davis
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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson
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"America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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"Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin." »Tommy Boy
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"Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security." »Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly." »Mark Twain
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"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness." »Amy Hillyard Jensen
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor
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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike
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"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler
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