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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Letter to Mr. B — http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/blettera.htm", preface to Poems (1831).
Craig Venter (1946) American biochemist
A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, pp. 165–166 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA165 <br class="br">Context: Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.
“I do detest all offices — all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1840
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Context: I do detest all offices — all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah
Jiang Yi-huah (1960) Taiwanese politician
Jiang Yi-huah (2013) cited in " Amid massive anti-nuclear protests, Taiwanese rethink their desired lifestyle http://www.taiwaninsights.com/tag/premier-jiang-yi-huah/" on Taiwan Insights, 14 April 2013
Frank I. Cobb (1869–1923) American newspaper editor
LaFollette's Magazine (January 1920).