#pert

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. ↗

— Scott Walker

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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. ↗

— William Weld

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. ↗

— Cornel West

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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. ↗

— Emma Willard

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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