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• I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Cities, Community

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• The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Character, Criticism, Favorite Subject

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Sitting

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

  Bum Phillips

  Leadership, Sports, Home

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• Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

  Roy Spencer

  Understanding, Majority, Climate

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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  People, Identity, Boundaries

  "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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• These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Childhood, Forget

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Vegetarian, Should, Arbiter

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• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Iraq, White, House

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• I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

  Leslie Fiedler

  People, Engagement, Bills

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• Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

  Leo Szilard

  Done, Irritated, Effects

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• I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.

  Lee Ryan

  Girl, Kissing, Necks

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• White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Military, White, Issues

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• Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

  Eric Braeden

  Being In Love

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

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• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Trying, World

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

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• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Jazz, Rhythm, Gospel Music

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

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• I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
  All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

  Abraham Maslow

  Encouragement, Fear, Mistake

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Exercise, Data

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

  Naomi Judd

  Towns, Slides

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Individualism, Practicals

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Bombs, Speak

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• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Anniversary, Book

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• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ambition

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