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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."
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"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."
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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
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"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
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"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
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"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
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"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."
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"I think writers are very anxious."
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"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."
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"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
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