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I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.


Daniel Drezner

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DANIEL DENNETT The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETT I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ...
DANIEL DENNETT As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and ...
DANIEL DENNETT The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...
DANIEL DENNETT The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
DANIEL DENNETT In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may ...
DANIEL DENNETT An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
DANIEL DEFOE The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
DANIEL DEFOE In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
DANIEL DEFOE It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...
DANIEL DEFOE As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and le...
DANIEL CUDMORE I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
DANIEL CUDMORE Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.
DANIEL CUDMORE If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers ju...
DANIEL CUDMORE I would love to work on a Bond film.
DANIEL CUDMORE If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
DANIEL CUDMORE Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfi...
DANIEL CUDMORE If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
DANIEL CUDMORE I started drama in high school.
DANIEL CUDMORE I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
DANIEL CUDMORE I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
DANIEL CUDMORE I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are...
DANIEL CUDMORE When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The s...
DANIEL CUDMORE Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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