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Thu 19 Sep 2019

Cows

Posted by PJ under profession, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If every man worked at that for which nature fitted him, the cows would be well tended.”

—Jean Pierre Claris de Florian, La Vacher de la Garde-chasse

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 19 May 2014

Pro

Posted by PJ under profession, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.”

—Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

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Tue 24 Apr 2012

Top of the world, Ma

Posted by PJ under lovers, profession, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Men seldom endure a profession if they do not believe or persuade themselves that it is basically more important than all others.  Women do the same with their lovers.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

 

 

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Mon 29 Aug 2011

Ugly

Posted by PJ under profession, quote of the day, ugly
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”

—James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire, May 1961

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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