Quote of the Day - 4.5.09

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| Sat Apr. 4, 2009 9:11 PM PDT
From the Wall Street Journal, about a guy who just finished building a spectacular $24 million home in Toronto with a private concert hall:

Jim Stewart, who will only say he is in his 60s, is a top-shelf classical violinist who earned his millions writing calculus textbooks.

You can earn millions writing calculus textbooks?  Seriously?

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