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- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
- An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg
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