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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: America Competent Concert Development Disciples Does Expense Free Gorgeous Halls Many Music Musical Need Pay Rooms Scholarships Schools Study Talented Teachers Unable Very Who Young

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You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: Amazon Among Any App Company Competent Components Days Does Early Even Fake Game Growth Intelligent Large Lot Name Planning Rapidly Rare Services Set Something Sort Startup Startups Tech Up Web You

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

~Arthur Eddington

Topics: Competent Distant Future Hope Judgment Shall Simple Sound Star Thing Too Understand

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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

Topics: About Allow Basis Because Competent Decide Doctor Let Us Level Medicine National Political Practice Prescribe Regulate Say State Talking Us Will

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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

~Barry Eisler

Topics: About Anyone Argument Competent Difficult Effective Everyone Internet Least Low Quality Really Strangest Sure Thing Wants Who

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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

~Benazir Bhutto

Topics: Am Competent Contest Elections I Am

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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

~Bill Wyman

Topics: Any Arrangements Band Competent Creative Freedom Ideas Like Musician People Songs Stones Things Where You

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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

~Billy Joel

Topics: Age Am Competent Extraordinary Incompetence Makes Me Merely Said I Am

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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

Topics: Bad Competent Consider Extraordinary In My Opinion Inept Means Merely Myself Opinion Pianist Singer Songwriter

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The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Agents Competent Incredibly Majority People Secret Service Vast Vast Majority

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