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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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