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" Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! "
David Eddings
Conscience
Think
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" Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. "
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" I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. "
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" I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. "
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