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Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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Les Back

Born: December 17, 1962 (age 62)
Bio: Les Back is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author.
Known for:
  1. The Art of Listening (2007)
  2. New Ethnicities and Urban Culture (1996)

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