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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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Constitution
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. – Felix Frankfurter

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strength
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Professionalism
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Professionalism

I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon

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Professionalism

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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Professionalism

A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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Professionalism

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Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. – Piers Anthony

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Education

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. – E. M. Forster

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Letters (writing)