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economist, n:
Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough
personality to become an accountant.
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Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would
turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
-- Robert Orben
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Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a
percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
-- Edgar R. Fiedler
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Editing is a rewording activity.
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Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and
demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.
-- Charlotte Observer, 1897
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
-- Irwin Edman
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner
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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead
to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters
of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with
royal-blue chickens.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"
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