"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."

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"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."

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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Profession, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Profession, Help, Expertise, Respect

"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."

Mark Twain, American Author

Profession, Trade, Literature, Music, Drama

"From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Profession, Career, Emotion, Humor, Finance

"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Profession, Business, Writing, Creativity, Entrepreneurship

"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."

Gina Gershon, American Actress

Profession,

"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."

Cy Coleman, American Composer

Profession,

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Profession, Acting, Science, Skill, Reason

"Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Profession, Confidence, Success, Determination

"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

Profession, Quality, Thoughtfulness, Depth, Action

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"Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms."

Life, Work, Living

"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."

Life, Conviction, Difficulties

"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

Idea, Knowledge, Beliefs, Books

"It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized."

Living,

"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."

Animals, Being, Plants, Years

"Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win."

Judgment, May

"I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on."

People, Difficulties

"There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs."

Belief, Beliefs, Class, Facts, Theories

"I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago."

Time, Belief, Authorship, First

"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

Animals, Plants