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

  Robert Breault

  Worry, Better Me, Craziest

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• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

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• I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Facts, Kind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

  James Garner

  Running, Country, California

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

  James Spader

  Mean, Acting, Alternatives

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

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• I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

  George Clooney

  Roles, Comment, Persons

  "George Clooney Says He “Destroyed” The Role Of Batman, Weighs In On Ben Affleck’s Casting" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

  Greg Biffle

  Strong, Suits, Know How

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• The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Evil, Unlimited

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

  Nova Peris

  Years, Continents

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• Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

  Nadine Gordimer

  May, Sometimes, Disaster

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.99, A&C Black

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• All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part of the "well-regulated" militia, specifically to understand and perform well with the individual weapon currently issued to the regular establishment. . . . Thus one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Father, Men, Gun

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• I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Rights, Judging

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

  Charles Hodge

  Sea, Giving, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.38

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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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• Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

  Samuel Johnson

  Judging, Done, Littles

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.142

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• In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Responsibility, Boss

  "As A Latina, Sonia Sotomayor Says, 'You Have To Work Harder'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 13, 2014.

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• There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

  Deborah Rhode

  Integrity, Judging, Example

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The pool of illegal immigrants is like a qualified bunch of people. You don't have to do surveys. You don't have to interview them. You know they are ready-made Democrat voters. Not only that, they are readymade Democrat constituents.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Voters, Interviews

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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