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		That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Will Self 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Naomi Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samira Wiley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Becky Lynch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Annie Jacobsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Andy Grove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason." 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				E. O. Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Letitia Baldrige 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Will Self