I am not going to cite the sentence. Of course it is from an academic article. I have written worse sentences, but this one caught my eye this morning.
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"Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things." Robert L. Heilbroner commenting on An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations-- We are no Adam Smith, but we are putting forth "an effort to see to the bottom of things."
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Which still leaves the million dollar question, what counts as an education?
On the other hand, I think universities are better institutions than the average school because most people can agree that the core function is education, not providing employment to the politically well connected (Think the New Orleans public school system pre-Katrina).
to insert a little dry humor, "that's some keen insight you have their Dr. Maupin".
Ha. Hope you get my wit.
GGM
insight referring to the insight provided by first sentence.
For the record, I didn't write the sentence.
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