"Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around."

-- Robert B. Parker

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“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
“A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.”
“I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.”

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“My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.”
“And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.”
“It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.”
“Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.”
“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

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