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Bill  Gates
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates

Ronald H. Coase
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists

Edward Abbey
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Charles Darwin
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Flannery O'Connor
“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
Flannery O'Connor

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Allison
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Stephanie
81 books | 23 friends

Jacky
1,453 books | 77 friends

Allen Yang
158 books | 225 friends

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