#pert

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#am #basically #could #expertise #first

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#concur #east #experts #middle #middle east

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#country #excluded #feel #must #owner

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. ↗

— Euripides

#god #hates #men #ordained #possess

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 #being in love #dissected #expert #i

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#i #i am #mine #original #personal

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#because #building #came #case #confined

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash