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"Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence."
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management
assistant
executive-assistant
incompetence
valets
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Jim Butcher |
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a1f5fbd
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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social
incompetence
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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"He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way."
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sword-fighting
incompetence
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Lynn Kurland |
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Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.
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mr-prosser
incompetence
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Douglas Adams |
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I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.
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work
the-fountainhead
incompetence
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Ayn Rand |
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Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.
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george-w-bush
self-importance
idiocy
incompetence
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John Irving |
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4bce7f9
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A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
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politicians
incompetence
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.
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sex-education
incompetence
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Bob Smith |
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7bf8e7e
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One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
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moment
incompetence
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Frank Herbert |
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-the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.
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incompetence
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Anne Fadiman |
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575f34c
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[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel.
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incompetence
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Iain M. Banks |