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1 " She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance. "
― Ayn Rand , The Fountainhead
2 " I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futility of a competence stillborn there. To understand this you have to become this. "
― , Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
