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• But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll
  Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul....
• University President: "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment?
  Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers ....
• It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. -- Vice President Dan Quayle
• The following report appeared in a memo from the vice president of the Southside Transportation Authority.
  "We should abandon our current five-year plan to purchase additional buses to serve the campus of Southside University, because students there are unlikely to use them....
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
• We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
  -- Mikhail Gorbachev...