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“Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.”
Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers
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“There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.”
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“The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.”
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“Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.”
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“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”
Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999. 
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“The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.”
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“No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,”
Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.15, Macmillan
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“Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.”
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“The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.”
