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• There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent experts in optical physics and related fields.

  Steven M. Greer

  Night, Experts, World

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Anticipation, Realistic

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• Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.

  John Medina

  Men, Details, Gist

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody that's super-competent and that's me.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, People, Want

  Source: www.economist.com

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• A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Play, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We do not have a South African as a member of the African Commission. The President of the Commission comes from Mali, the Deputy comes from Rwanda and then we have got all these other members, ordinary commissioners. There is no South African there. And the reason, again, for that is not because we didn't have South Africans who are competent.

  Thabo Mbeki

  President, Ordinary, Reason

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Heaven, Soul

  "Paperweight". Book by Stephen Fry, 1992.

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• I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thumbs, Taught, Loser

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.268, Scholastic Inc.

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• He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Congressman, Persons

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [James Comey] term extends for some time yet. There's no plans at the moment in changing that term. And we've enjoyed our relationship with him and find him to be extraordinarily competent.

  Reince Priebus

  Moments, Our Relationship, Term

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

  Ernest Sosa

  Luck, Succeed, Competence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Learning, Desire, Anxious

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• I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him.

  Sean Hannity

  Running, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.

  Ernest Sosa

  Memories, Assessment, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Defense, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.59, Modern Library

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Names, Nomenclature

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• Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Hands, Psychology

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Work, Doe

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Tasks, Height

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 4, l. 136

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• There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

  Mike McCready

  Rocks, Insecurity, Musician

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• We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

  Michelle Hunziker

  People, Insecurity, Germany

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• We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

  Edward Bond

  Insecurity, Desert, Literature

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• When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Hands, Lasts, Program

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  Nathan Deal

  Government, Years, White

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