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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco as a Clerk-Typist, GS-4. I was active in the USFS's union for several years, including a brief stint as editor of The Forest Service Monitor, the nationwide voice of the Forest Service in the National Federation of Federal Employees. Howsoever, I now believe my most important contribution while editor of the F.S.M. was bringing to the attention of F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct; one had been found in 1980 on a national forest in the Colorado. In 2001 I retired from the USFS after attaining the age of 60 with 23 years of service. Stanford University was evidently unimpressed with my efforts to make USFS investigative reports of tort claim incidents available to tort claimants (ie, "the public"), alleging the negligence of a F.S. employee acting in the scope of his/her duties caused their damages, under the Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. What'cha gonna do?

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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.    By Gore Vidal    [fullquote]

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I am his master's dog at Kew, pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you?    By Alexander Pope    [fullquote]

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...Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.    By Andrew Wiles    [fullquote]

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Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.    By Albert Einstein    [fullquote]

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.    By Mark Twain    [fullquote]

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They throw the ball and I hit it. They hit the ball and I catch it.    By Willie Mays    [fullquote]

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Consider the staggering number of murders of innocent human beings committed by the United States government -- and ask yourselves how many {911 incidents] those murders represent. I have tried to make calculations of this kind before: using conservative estimates of the deaths in Iraq, the murders in that country alone represent a 9/11 every day for five years.    By Arthur Silber    [fullquote]

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If you can see it, you can be it.    By Billie Jean King    [fullquote]

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What we have is not a Democracy; it's an auction.    By Bumper Sticker    [fullquote]

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Greatness is a road leading to the unknown.    By Charles De Gaulle    [fullquote]

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Albert Einstein
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.    By Albert Einstein    [fullquote]

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When we ask advice, we are usually....    By Joseph Louis LeGrange    [fullquote]

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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.    By Che Guevara    [fullquote]

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.    By Franklin D. Roosevelt    [fullquote]

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I want to put a ding in the universe.    By Steve Jobs    [fullquote]

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Trust in God, and keep your powder dry.    By Oliver Cromwell    [fullquote]

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Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.    By An Eskimo    [fullquote]

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Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.    By Mahatma Gandhi    [fullquote]

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There are none so blind as those who will not see.    By John Heywood    [fullquote]

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Albert Einstein
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.    By Albert Einstein    [fullquote]

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