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Russell Baker

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

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Russell Baker is saying that a truly educated person understands that most information they encounter is not fully accurate or reliable. This means they recognize that facts can often be wrong, deceptive, or invented rather than completely true.

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