All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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