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• A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Politician, Modern, Explaining

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strings Attached, Balance, Needs

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• I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

  Michel Gondry

  Character, Personality, Use

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification (takyeef), His action without effort (takleef).

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Essence, Effort, Desire

  "Doctrine of Sufis". Book by Muhammed Al-Kalabadhi, translated by A.J. Arberry. Chapter 5, p. 16, 1977.

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• It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

  Hannah Arendt

  Party, Political, Demand

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• We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Useless, Chance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.313

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• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Talent, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1812). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.”, p.326

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• I want people to vote, I want them to pay attention. I want them to get up and go and vote and care about this country, inform themselves about the issues and I also want them to not vote for somebody just based on gender or race, based on qualification.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Race, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Vanity, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• [on debates] Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Thinking, President, Mark

  "latimes.com: Candidates look to break out in waning days" by Maria L. La Ganga and Mark Z. Barabak, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

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• (H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

  Pat Buchanan

  Law, Careers, Judging

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• There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.206

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• The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

  Vance Havner

  Soul, Missionary, Christ

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Godly

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Adversity, Stronger

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• It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Drama, Political, Special

  Charles Edward Merriam (1945). “Systematic Politics”

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• It was a dream start, a perfect start for us. We had to start qualification away from home in Portugal, the group favourites - and I still think they are the group favourites. It was a historic result to win against a big team in Europe, so I am very happy for my country and for my people. They were all looking to the national team. This victory is for them and we will try to do the best that we can until the end of qualification.

  Lorik Cana

  Soccer, Country, Football

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• Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, President, Riding

  "Rove's Take: Gen. Clark-McCain-Obama Triangle". "On the Record" with Greta Van Sustern, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

  Nigella Lawson

  Chef, Cooks

  Nigella Lawson (2017). “Eating: Vintage Minis”, p.10, Random House

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• I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

  Dexter Fletcher

  School, Theatre, Bread

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Glimpse, Awareness, Watchfulness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

  Mark Penn

  Winning, Election, Democratic

  "Clinton camp begins 11th hour effort" by David Paul Kuhn, www.politico.com. February 16, 2008.

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• No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Expression, Idols

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• The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Jobs, Color, Skins

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• Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.

  Angus T. Jones

  Grateful, Men, Past

  "'Two and a Half Men' star apologizes for offending cast and crew", www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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