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• I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Enemy, Fool, Energetic

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• What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

  James Chanos

  Games, People, Level Playing Field

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• The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Intelligent, White, Black

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Father, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

  Magic Johnson

  Home, Self, People

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

  Aldous Huxley

  Portraiture, Faces, Profile

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

  Jim Clyburn

  Errors, People, Sometimes

  "Jim Clyburn: Susan Rice Attacks Are Racial Code" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

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• A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Long, Able, Feels

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.163, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

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• To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Iraq, People

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• I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

  Leon Jaworski

  Extremist, Incompetent, Moderates

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• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

  William Hogarth

  Envy, Judging, World

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• The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Differences, Environment, Surroundings

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• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Queens, Numbers

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• Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Mistake, Successful

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• To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

  John Donne

  Lying, Judging, Answers

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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• Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.

  Howard Dean

  Running, Teacher, Kids

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• You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Describing, Knows

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• The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

  Rob Paulsen

  Voice, Creative, Fearless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

  Nico

  Clever, Dad, Great Men

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• I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him a chance to respond. You assume he is competent and involve him in his care and let him, as much as possible, solve his own problems. You give him plenty of physical freedom and you don't push development.

  Magda Gerber

  Baby, Attitude, Giving

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• Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Leisure, Physicians

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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