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Quote by Alistair Cooke
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt feel like it. – Alistair Cooke

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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

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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. – Marcel Masse

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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. – Herbert Marshall

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