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Laura Penny Quotes (1975-)
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About Laura Penny
Laura Penny (born 1975) was born in Nova Scotia and currently teaches English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. Ms. Penny has worked as a bookstore clerk, a student activist, a union organizer, and a university instructor.
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“All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.”
“"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.”
“Nerds do not think they are better than you. Nerds are better than you, in their particular fields, unless you happen to be an even more devoted nerd.”
“Laughing at the clueless mouthfarts of cute twenty somethings who spent their high-school years with vocal coaches or plastic surgeons is another variation on the theme "Are we getting dumber?"”
“The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.”
“Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got billions in bailouts, yet somehow the financial sector still inspires more trust and respect than the government that saved it from itself.”
“If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for historians, there should be no history. If there is no money in brains, there should be no brains - except for the brains that make money.”
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Laura Penny on Ayn Rand
“But all of Rand's heroic capitalists triumph in industries that are now dead or bleeding. It's easy to write potboilers that posit sharp moral distinctions between the makers and takers when you live in a big-shouldered factory world where people still make things.”
About Laura Penny
Laura Penny (born 1975) was born in Nova Scotia and currently teaches English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. Ms. Penny has worked as a bookstore clerk, a student activist, a union organizer, and a university instructor.