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• A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Underwear, Trials

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Useless, Chaos, Source

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Style

  "British Sensation Lawson Says Cooking Should Be About Fun, Family". Oakland Tribune, June 04, 2003.

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• I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Sex, Writing

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.

  Michael Pollan

  Fun, Writing, Ignorance

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Appreciate, Critics

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.

  Charles Faulkner

  Understanding, Intuition, Typical

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• Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.

  Robert Twigger

  Animal, Giving, Connections

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• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  David Corn

  Play, Choices, Important

  "The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 3, 2015.

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• You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.

  Chris Murray

  Pride, Helping Others, People

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• Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Past, Years, Three

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• Those who depend fully on another person’s knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields, but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.

  Joelle Charbonneau

  Decision, Leader, Fields

  Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

  Marianne Moore

  Unicorn, Disappear, Century

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.78, Penguin

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• Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

  Jay Leno

  Math, Should Have, Together

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• Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

  Jay Leno

  Holiday, Men, Giving

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Years, Psychology, Brain

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• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  Damon Lindelof

  Ted Talks, May, Sound

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• I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

  Rex Stout

  Women, Female, Done

  Rex Stout (2011). “GAMBIT”, p.81, Bantam

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• When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Struggle

  "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007.

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• In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Trying, Pitfalls

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

  Jessica Alba

  Book, Kids, Parent

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.145, Rodale

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• My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.

  Shinzo Abe

  Hands, Historical, Matter

  The Washington Post Translated Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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