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• Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

  David W. Orr

  Destiny, Community, Citizens

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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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• Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.

  Chinua Achebe

  Artist, Views, People

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Sunday

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• There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Errors

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Nature, Rocks, People

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

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• Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

  Will Self

  Sports, Effort, Puberty

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Choices, Insecurity, Adults

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• If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, People, First Impression

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Mean, Singers, Opinion

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• Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

  Penn Jillette

  President, Qualified, Ifs

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

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  Barney Frank

  Marijuana, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Clever, Humility, Skulls

  "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.

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• I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

  Vikram Seth

  Imagination, Music Love

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Hero, World, Combination

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

  Herbert Spencer

  Writing, Science, Europe

  "Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions".

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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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• 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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• 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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• The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

  Avinash Dixit

  Analysis, Economics

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• Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, May, Succeed

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Dark, Practice

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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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