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• I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.

  William E. Gladstone

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Gladstone's Conundrums.; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions". www.nytimes.com. February 9, 1879.

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• There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Writing, People

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• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

  Taslima Nasrin

  College, Medical, Graduates

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, taslimanasrin.com.

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• Studied law, but not qualified to practice it.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Law, Practice

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• What I would hope to do is painting, because I don't think I'm qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don't think Starbucks would even hire me.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Jobs, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Dames, Way, England

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Eye, Order

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• Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Focus, Target Market, Advertising

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, United States, Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.

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• I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hate, Data, Peers

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• To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Believe, Games

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• Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.

  David Letterman

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• Sarah Palin made her debut as a Fox News analyst. They finally found a job that she's not under-qualified for.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Fox News, Foxes

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• Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?

  David Letterman

  Country, Giving, Guy

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• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

  Porter Goss

  Jobs, Today, Cia

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• There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Focus, Risk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Integrity, People, Benches

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985”, p.1270, Best Books on

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• Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

  Jesse Ventura

  Felt

  "The Body Politic" by Joseph P. Kahn, archive.boston.com. February 25, 2004.

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• You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Country, Couple, Mean

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• There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Believe, Men, Authority

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• To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

  Watchman Nee

  Mean, Desire, Able

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• Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Reason, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.224

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• In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Team, Responsibility

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