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• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

  Maureen Reagan

  Equality, Men, Office

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• How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Vices, Obscurity

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rights, Law, Pitfalls

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• In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Children

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Thinking, Men

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Self, Iowa, Calling

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• I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

  Rachael Ray

  Jobs

  "Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery - and she can't bake" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving, Doubt, Firsts

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.322

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• It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Faults, Paradoxical

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.291

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• Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Judgment, Claims, Proportion

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.190, Univ of California Press

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• Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  United States, Fields, Lawyer

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2005.

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• Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, Forever, Tears

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• I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter,' and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

  Holt McCallany

  Long, Hats, Fighter

  "Holt McCallany and Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Squad

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.

  Donald Shoup

  Long, Giving, Challenges

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• What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Eternity, Observation

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1799, Princeton University Press

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• librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

  Jan Struther

  Admiration And Respect, Calling, World

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination.

  Conan O'Brien

  Political, Nuisance, Nominations

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• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Running, Mean, Government

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• I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Teacher, Hurt, Sorry

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• The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.

  Wendell Berry

  Needs, Mysterious, Kind

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• The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Religious, Heart, Men

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