Qualifications Quotes - Page 2

The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...

George Washington

Party, Character, Eye

George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Observation, Situation, Accurate

Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.23

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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Intuition, Literature

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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

Edgar Allan Poe

Anomalies, Alive, Earth

Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.799, Xist Publishing

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Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

Gustave Courbet

Cutting, Trying, Limits

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Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

Edward Abbey

Philosophy, Lying, Mean

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Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

Oscar Pistorius

Running, Athlete, Legs

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It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

Curtis Stone

Thinking, People, Add

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Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

Dalai Lama

Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.

John McCain

Believe, Should Have, Tests

John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Choices, Grace, Done

"On Grace & Free Choice". Book by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1988.

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Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.

Robert A. Young

Impact, Risk, Levels

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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Wish, Prejudice

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

David Platt

Kings, Son, Israel

David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.35, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

Peter J. Carroll

Believe, Years, Giving

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Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

Milton S. Eisenhower

Firsts, Dictator, Disregard

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Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.

Andrew Jackson

Character, Order, Talent

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The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

John Stuart Mill

Successful, Two, Fidelity

John Stuart Mill (1870). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.184

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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Roger Lewis

Artist, Thinking, Celibacy

Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone

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Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Benefits, Share, Results

Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

Jaggi Vasudev

Love, Life, Meditation

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They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

George Weah

Education, People, President

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There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

John Oliver

Real, Thinking, Intention

Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

Milton Friedman

School, Dark, Practice

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The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Guests, Punctuality, Said

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7

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