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• So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

  Chris Rock

  White, Black, Progress

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• If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

  Socrates

  Men, Delight, Opinion

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• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

  Wernher von Braun

  Failure, Errors, Rockets

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• He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Exaggeration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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• Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Forgiveness, Decision, Care

  Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.100, Schocken

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• I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Real, Grateful

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.300, University of Iowa Press

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• In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

  Robert Breault

  Worry, Better Me, Craziest

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• I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri. "Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I could barely hear him, and he was sitting right next to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Security Systems, Voice, Sitting

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.

  Nora Roberts

  Flower, Thinking, Magic

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• There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

  Mark Twain

  Reading, People, Soul

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.333, Courier Corporation

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• He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Grandmother, Play

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• At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government . . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

  James Madison

  Squares, Government, Views

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.216, Coventry House Publishing

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• We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Two, Car, Decision

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• The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Race, Doors

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1108, Best Books on

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• I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

  Jon Meacham

  Fate, Thinking, Answers

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• I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Father

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Jobs, Real, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.55, Convergent Books

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• I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Work, Drinking

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 31, 1975.

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Atlanta, Sky

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• And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, World, Determined

  Tom Wolfe (1982). “The Purple Decades: A Reader”, p.228, Macmillan

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• Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Goodbye, Eye

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be very protective of women,"he said thoughtfully. "You're a woman Dory." "Thank you for pointing that out. But I didn't think dhampirs qualified." Radu smirked. "It appears you've been upgraded.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Thinking, Exactly Is

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• You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Thinking, Feminism

  "Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too". Speech at a special event for the HeForShe campaign, United Nations Headquarters, New York, www.unwomen.org. September 20, 2014.

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