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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change."

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Adrian Desmond Historian
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"A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'."

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Danny Brown Musician
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"I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more."

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
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"The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert."

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Carson McCullers Novelist
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"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable."

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