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Law is a very addictive profession. -- George Carman
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. -- Peter Singer
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'? -- Jef I. Richards
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. -- Constance Baker Motley
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. -- Henry Louis Gates
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired. -- Len G. Murray
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. -- Charles Babbage
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard. -- Russ Feingold
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. -- William Dunbar
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. -- Hillary Clinton
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. -- John Grisham
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. -- Evan Davis
Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law... -- Ira Forman
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger -- Janet Evanovich
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession. -- V. R. Krishna Iyer
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit. -- George Washington
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other. -- Woodrow Wilson
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law. -- Leon Jaworski
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. -- Irving Kaufman

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