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  • Vocation comes from the Latin word meaning to call and like our call to the priesthood is an invitation from God.

    CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2006 2006

  • The book we use, which I had the honor to write, is called The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace.

    The Cult of Entrepreneurship 2008

  • In the eighth grade, we had to write a booklet called My Vocation -- what do you want to do when you grow up?

    'We Would Have Played for Nothing: 2008

  • Miles Jesu have some good material, including a DVD on the theme of "Vocation" which I intend to watch.....they also have booklets and a journal "Continuity" and a website www.milesjesu.com.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Miles Jesu have some good material, including a DVD on the theme of "Vocation" which I intend to watch.....they also have booklets and a journal "Continuity" and a website www.milesjesu.com.

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Once a man understands that his Vocation is the most honourable thing he can do, I suppose ---- There! who's that man, "he interrupted suddenly," in blue with the badge? "

    Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • "Vocation" can include avocations or causes. (from

    Citizen Tom 2009

  • I meant to share this video that Emile-James of the Vocation Station sent a number of days ago, which shows the life of the monks of the French Benedictine Abbey of Le Barroux.

    The Monks of Le Barroux 2009

  • Hey Matt, when Coakley loses and HCR dies, are we going to get another quotation from “Politics as a Vocation” and another lecture on the “slow boring of hard boards?”

    Matthew Yglesias » Democratic Presidents’ Base Problem 2010

  • What Matt, no link to Politics as a Vocation and no talk about the slow boring of hard boards?

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending 2010

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