What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
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Related What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer. ALLEN KLEIN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... 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CASSANDRA CLARE People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you th... BERNHARD SCHLINK Because talent management technologies are constantly evolving, it's nearly impossible to remain cur... ALLAN SCHWEYER It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us. ALBERT SPEER He's not listening to drug treatment experts and law enforcement authorities and educators in his ow... BARRY MCCAFFREY Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B... RICHARD CURTIS I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to th... MICHAEL GREGER The more lucrative the drug market, the higher the percentage of experts with financial ties - that ... DAVID ROTHMAN I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences ar... AYAAN HIRSI ALI Good camps fulfill a parent's number one concern -- safety -- while supplying experiences and lesson... GARY FORSTER 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's repro... JACKIE SPEIER What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and noth... MARTY RUBIN We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not n... FOUAD SINIORA More often than not, a heros most epic battle is the one you never see; its the battle that goes... KEVIN SMITH It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own person... DAVE BARRY Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church ... ADAM HAMILTON I've talked to experts in the field, people that are experts in design of jails, experts in construc... JOEL BAKER The truth is that there really aren't good camps and bad camps. There's only the matter of appropria... JEFFREY SOLOMON The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Naz... LEA SALONGA Hispanics have been very dominant in their willingness to vote with their feet — to move to other ... RONALD LANGSTON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL International Truck and Engine is pleased to accept this award from the industry experts at Frost & ... DAN LINDBERG That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is... BRIAN SWANSON Ninety percent of my varsity players have been to one of my camps throughout their youth. I think th... BOBBY BROCKMAN It's a form of acoustical spying that should raise red flags among computer security and privacy exp... DOUG TYGAR When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???... DEYTH BANGER We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER Why try to have pigs fly When ducks already can _ Why try to have pigs fly When ducks already can ELLA C. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han... ANUSHA ATUKORALA Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās. IMANTS ZIEDONIS I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is being adopted by organizations of all si... DAN KUZNETSKY I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c... GEORGE TAKEI Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armcha... DAVID ROBERT GRIMES No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as... RICHARD CURTIS It's only awkward if it matters. JOYCE RACHELLE I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not di... CHARLES JAMES I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my li... GEORGE TAKEI Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these inv... ERICA ABBETT It is clear that the camps are targets of the occupation forces. SAID SIAM I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, commu... SIMON WIESENTHAL I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. DAVID BOWIE [The women] are really the power that runs the camps. GABRIEL STAURING Our experts came up with numbers that were substantially smaller than that. DAVID KOLATA My Chinese friends often use the term 'win-win' -- this helps sum up the prevailing spirit of dialog... JAVIER SOLANA Because of the attention on boot camps, it's brought attention to the fact that Florida's system is ... CASSANDRA JENKINS We're not only doing research but doing research to improve a patient outcome, which is something th... DR. RICH ROVIN Industry experts predict that hybrids could make up nearly 15 percent of total registered vehicles w... GREG TOCZYDLOWSKI Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the... DEYTH BANGER Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, oft... BARRY RITHOLTZ I think we should form a European influenza task force that brings together all our knowledge, so th... ALBERT OSTERHAUS You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids abo... LZ GRANDERSON Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to vi... KARL ABRAHAM I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix... JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take pu... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores. GARTH RISK HALLBERG Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the spec... HERBERT LOM
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