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... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise.

Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho)

See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men like him all day long. Or better yet, uncover naked male statues. (Tory) Was that necessary? (Acheron) Hey, I live to recruit students for the department. If I can make you good for something, then by golly I’m going to do it. (Tory)

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

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Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

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 ...

The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion,but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

All his experts have said to him as well as me it would take three years to do that, ... He didn't say that he was going to take up France and Germany on their offer to train them in Europe. He didn't say he was going to speed up the training in Arab nations where Americans have trained Arab forces.

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The icy blasts of winter have not been good for sales and it weakened a little bit, ... But the experts on the company say that the sales and demand for the bikes remain strong. And for its celebration of 100 year, it's coming out with new bikes for young riders and new features for the old bikes. And they think that the stock will be up to $60 in 12 months.

Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.

The IAEA has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents -- which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger -- are not in fact authentic,

The employees we have really commit themselves to becoming experts about these products.

The independent group of experts are not pushovers in this process. No-one should rubbish their view in advance. Perhaps, like me, they will see that the Southern is clearly the best site. Perhaps they won't.

Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long-term effects in children were not clear.

The French government has been represented by its own officials in the investigation since the second day. The French government has their experts here, they're talking to our people all the time,

The civil liberties board is supposed to be the first contact for the president to talk about privacy and intelligence matters. We didn't know about the NSA piece when the intelligence-reform bill was put forward, but it would have been helpful to have the experts at the civil liberties board involved at the beginning.

The case was never about blaming the terrorists, ... It was about what the Port Authority should have done. They disregarded the advice of their own experts and other experts. They were motivated by money. They should have thought about the ultimate sacrifice of human lives.

The find was late last summer and I've been trying to publicly authenticate these pieces. I've called experts all over the world trying to interest anyone in the find.

The first job is to get both buildings cleaned and decontaminated. Once we have that done we'll have the experts go in and tell us what can be done and what can't be done.

The Commission's hearing officer maintained her position that correspondence between the Commission and the trustee and technical experts is internal.

The CIA, FBI and other agencies have made some progress in identifying and hiring foreign language experts. But the pipeline doesn't really exist. They're drawing from an almost nonexistent pool,

Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

All the elements that we have at hand, all the experts that were consulted, say that there is sufficient evidence to consider that we are dealing with an accident. But we must wait for the results of the investigation.

And if avian flu develops into a pandemic human strain - as many experts fear it may - the vaccine might complement traditional vaccines and be used to protect people.

The meeting of experts took place this morning, and the commission was unable today to show any clear proof that the commission remains within its mandate,

The lobbyists and the entities they represent tend to be among the most experienced experts available who have direct real-world knowledge of the situation. They are advocating for a position and for a client, but usually from a vantage point of expertise that can be very beneficial to us.

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she . . . will still be president.

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do...

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

Every expert was once a beginner.

Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.