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The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.

Thucydides
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

James Madison
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They better close it down. It's unsafe. It's unfit. My God, 12 men lost their lives.

Ann Meredith
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

H. L. Mencken
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The toughest part was having to take our daughter to court and show and tell the judge that she was an unfit parent, ... She was our only child but she had spiraled out of control. She'd be in their lives for a week and out for six months. We had to have control over what was happening to our grandbabies, so we took her to court.

Kay Smith
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Eleven of those affected were declared unfit to continue with the course while six voluntarily gave up training, saying it was too strenuous.

Connie Maina
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She's endangering the safety of the child. The standard would be that she engages in reckless conduct on a regular basis, and therefore she is an unfit parent.

Brian Oxman
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a 'have' type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a 'have not' type of self.

Eric Hoffer
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Daniel was a pretty unfit kid for a little while.

Joe Bowman
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James Anderson has big match experience with England and we feel that his inclusion in the squad will give the captain and coach another bowling option in the event of Simon Jones being unfit to play.

David Graveney
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[The same liberal groups that opposed Roberts for associate justice declared him even more unfit for chief.] His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy, ... Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.

Nan Aron
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We were there, we know the truth, and we know that this guy's unfit to be commander-in-chief, ... I think you'll find that people are very, very angry at John Kerry. They remember his career in Vietnam as a short, controversial one, and they believe that only Hollywood could turn this guy into a war hero.

John O'neill
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

William Wycherley
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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Quintus Fabius Maximus
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The World Trade Organization, with its secretive decision-making processes, is unfit to decide what we should eat or what farmers should grow.

Alexandra Wandel
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Eugene Debs
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

Eduard Hanslick
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