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• If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

  George Carlin

  Fool, Painting, Enough

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.82, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.

  Angelina Jolie

  Cancer, Reading, Choices

  "My Medical Choice" by Angelina Jolie, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Letting Go, Buddhism, World

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• An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

  Olivia

  Actors, Speakers

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• The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Heart, Idols

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• About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely known to cause immediate hypersensitivity reactions. While in the last forty years soy has occupied an important place in the transition from an unhealthy meat-based diet to vegetarian and vegan cuisine, it is time for us to upgrade our food choice to one having more benefits, and fewer negative possibilities. In 1986, Stuart Berger, MD, placed soy among the seven top allergens - one of the "sinister seven." At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Years, Gmos, Choices

  Gabriel Cousens (2007). “There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program”, p.179, North Atlantic Books

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• A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Skills, Accomplishment, Brain

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• Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

  Eric Hoffer

  Addiction, Watches, Tables

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• You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

  Michael Broadbent

  Drinking, Wine, Order

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Mother, Problem, Deals

  "'Queen Bee' guide to not feeling stung". Interview with Nora Krug, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

  Moshe Dayan

  Knowledge, Fields, Supposed To Be

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• I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Men, President, Vices

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• I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

  Mark Burnett

  Adventure, Race, Challenges

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• If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

  Sidney Lanier

  Strong, Men, Branches

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• Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

  Ron Wyden

  Police, Alternatives, Steps

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• There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

  Samuel Florman

  Technology, Issues, Opinion

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• Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Airplane, Self Confidence

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Writing, Athlete

  "Transcendence and the Creative Process" by Ann Purcell, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Only failure makes us experts.

  Theo de Raadt

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• I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Flying, Crossing The Street

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.42, Bantam

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• I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Military, War

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• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Responsibility, Self

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• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Parent, Hints

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• I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

  Joy Behar

  Memories, Citizens, Position

  "Current’s Joy Behar Wants Conservatives ‘If They Have The Balls To Come On The Show’". Interview with Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. June 12, 2012.

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