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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Also Assets Build Calls Charter Competence Efficiency Ensure Good Highest Highest Levels Integrity Levels Living Most Name Nations Reputation Seek Solid Staff Standard United United Nations Up Uphold Valuable Vulnerable Will

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President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

~Ben Shapiro

Topics: Actual Administration American American Life Anger Competence Constantly Control Events Express Expressions Fact Frustration His Life Many Members Obama Odd Over President President Obama Rage Seem Should Substitute Think Totally Unsettling Within

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We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Become Competence Confidence Every Examples High High School Like Lots Middle Place School Where Will Would Youth

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Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: Advice Calling Collaborative Community Competence Episcopal God Governance His How Involves Make Make Up More Needs Others Our Rather Revealing Seeking Shortcomings Than Through Up Work

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Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

~Brandon Webb

Topics: Above Aspire Average Comfortably Competence Dedicated Deliver Designed Excellence Must Organizations Producing Programs Serious Training

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Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

~Bunker Roy

Topics: Any Around Belief Bone Combination Competence Confidence Find Inaccessible Midwife Over Professional Professionals Someone Them Traditional Village Water Who World You

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Adds Become Competence Daily Daily Life Describe Deserts Does Life Literature Lives Necessary Our Our Lives Provides Reality Requires Respect Simply

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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

~Carles Puigdemont

Topics: About Back Brave Citizens Competence Countries Europe Need Other Other Countries Solution Talk Them Turn Very Where

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Because Competence Encounter Exciting Government Most Rare Single Thing You

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You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

~David Boies

Topics: About Children Competence Doctors Feel Firm Go Had Hospital Law Law Firm Lawyers Merit Parents Regardless Same Schools Send Tenure Way Were Where You

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