“He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.”

—  Jack McDevitt

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 36 (p. 322)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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