Professions
- a domestic assistant at Oxford University: see bedder
- Reconnaissance
- Scout (sport), a professional sports talent-scout
- Scout.com, a sports-publishing company
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Famous quotes containing the word professions:
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.”
—Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.
Dutch expression.
“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. ‘Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)