12 Clerical Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. Noam Chomsky

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Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. Gloria Steinem

You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian? Newt Gingrich

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Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed. Eugene Kennedy

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I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics. David Autor

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That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted. Ross Douthat

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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about. Xavier Becerra

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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country. Xavier Becerra

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I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. Giovanni Ribisi

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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. William P. Leahy

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Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. Roger Mahony

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