That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would be OK, unless you proved you were the more qualified candidate.
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, ... JAMES SINEGAL We were confident that we could find a qualified candidate, largely because it's a seat we can win. KIRSTEN SEARER No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what ... CRIMETHINC. I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few wome... LEAH WARD SEARS I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that the... DANA PERINO Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get throug... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalis... ANTHONY BRAXTON Employees may want to move things like boats or a hobby car, but those things are typically not incl... DEBORAH BENAVIDES If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it wou... DEXTER GORDON Honesty is the best Policy, unless you could save more money with Geico. ROBERT GRAYSON SENTER Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not... ANGELINA GRIMKE The most ambitious goals in the history of the commonwealth is hiring minorities and women. We don't... BRETT HALL A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. ALFRED ADLER As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the superna... GEORGES BIZET The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a polic... ANN COULTER More and more human resource executives are coming to the realization that they can no longer drag t... JOHN CHALLENGER Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless ... MARGARET FULLER We were surprised that the company was not in a position to comment on a dividend policy or pay a fi... JAMES LINDSAY A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. ROBERT GALBRAITH A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. ALFRED ADLER We were very satisfied that the security was done is such a way that you could get to the data that ... JOE BURTON It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sa... HENRY KRAVIS When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, th... NAOMI WOLF The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Am... JOHN CONYERS Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am str... CRISTINA MARRERO We have qualified for the final which means we have done a good job. When you have your supporters b... RAFAEL BENITEZ Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it c... MARGARET FULLER One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a ... TIM HUDSON Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that... EZRA POUND Show me your character & I will tell you if you are qualified to be a candidate in the school of lov... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It would make me a more cautious and maybe me a little smarter that you shouldn't do that unless you... DAVE CHRISTIAN In 1944, the G.I. Bill was adopted to support returning servicemen. The VA not only denied African A... RICHARD ROTHSTEIN Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership ... JESSE JACKSON I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never goi... KIM GRUENENFELDER Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No. JOHN MCAFEE If you understood the plan of your government, that means it is a policy or if you don't it means it... RASHID JORVEE Jamie's the prime candidate, and beyond that you really don't necessarily want two left-handers goin... MIKE HARGROVE Every named candidate is making a play for the right, and some seem to be doing a decent job of it. ... BRIAN HART It could be just a lucky shot. Or it could be that they have invested in a training program, and the... GENJOHN KEANE It's really not good, ... I mean, when I talked to Siegfried last night, he said, you know, it was g... PENN JILLETTE While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise y... ALEXI GIANNOULIAS Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely cla... DANA ROHRABACHER He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or w... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I emerged from summer league feeling that I would have no trouble, no problem playing Wayne Simien. ... STAN VAN GUNDY The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like an... C.S. LEWIS Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that Afr... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I work too much. Being successful this past year has been amazing, but that success means either hir... JASON CLARK I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love... ZIGGY MARLEY There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are e... MADELEINE M. KUNIN I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would off... SHARRON ANGLE The lesson of the ages have proved that success is more than just the accumulation of wealth and by ... GODWIN ELENDU PH.D Be careful not to hold onto relationships that no longer work simply because you have history with f... STALINA GOODWIN There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions. LEVAR BURTON [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ... EARL GRAVES You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows. JIM RATCLIFFE Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have defini... DERRICK JENSEN There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were goi... JEFF BLAKE By no means were we trying to be perverse, but we were setting out to make a list that was a bit mor... JAMIE GRAHAM Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. SYBIL STANTON You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you. DEEANNE GIST There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction o... GEORGE HILL No commander before me, no commander after me, will be more proud of his soldiers - his warriors - t... COL. DAVID ELICERIO Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of ... SANDRA BULLOCK The constable's office and the JP office works hand-in-hand every day. I believe I stand before you ... MATT MASDEN Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us t... ZACK WAMP There is no paradise for you or me. MAZ NO PARADISE when you go to a company in Germany you are going to tell them it is for the centrifuge program, whi... DAVID ALBRIGHT Nature proved that no matter how rich and economically developed you are, you can't fight it. DANUT AFASEI As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we c... OCTAVIA SPENCER The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you ... CANDACE BUSHNELL If you could actually get rid of your special power which alienates you from the rest of the world, ... HUGH JACKMAN In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old ... GEORGE VECSEY African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted ... ALVEDA KING It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sin... DICK GREGORY We have no motive, no witnesses and that's the trouble. It's unfathomable that you could have 16 sho... CMDR. KIM HUMPHREY When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the i... LINDA LIGHTFOOT All you do is take more money out of taxpayers' hands that could be used for something more useful, ... STUART ANDERSON If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give... HAMILTON JORDAN The existing system could tell you that it was going to send five cartons with 50 items, but it coul... BRUCE MANTZ I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE To be competitive, you no longer could have a slow, hierarchical, command-and-control decision-makin... DOUGLAS NORBY Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be... SCOTT KAUPIN You wouldn't even know they were there. No noise, no roaring cars through the parking lot. They aren... STEVE PURCELL It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno... AARON THOMPSON We knew that more research had to be done -- that a more complete picture had to be painted on the r... JANE FORBES CLARK He's redefining a tradition that traditionally excluded African Americans and arguing that you can t... JANET DAVIS most qualified and experienced candidate in a generation. JESSE JACKSON What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You coul... VINT CERF Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be... LEE CHILD The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith b... GARY BAUER That means that at the end of the day, you have a brain that costs you more energy. That's where sle... GIULIO TONONI When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would awa... SOLOMON ORTIZ If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or ... GEORGE ORWELL Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. 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PATRICK NESS And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but w... PATRICK NESS I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you. PATRICK NESS Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ... ELIOT NESS And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to ... PATRICK NESS A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their g... PATRICK NESS He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right ther... PATRICK NESS Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only ... PATRICK NESS Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary... PATRICK NESS Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. 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PATRICK NESS The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. PATRICK NESS If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whateve... PATRICK NESS Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go. PATRICK NESS Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all. PATRICK NESS You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An en... PATRICK NESS There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac... PATRICK NESS Death is not the end. PATRICK NESS They're your parents. They're meant to love you because . Never in spite . PATRICK NESS It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving. PATRICK NESS Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. PATRICK NESS Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret. PATRICK NESS Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding. PATRICK NESS It may cost you, my Queen. It may cost you dear." "All the best journeys do, faun. PATRICK NESS Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't loo... PATRICK NESS So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right... PATRICK NESS But there are harder things than being invisible, it said. PATRICK NESS The Third Tale There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not ... PATRICK NESS What did you do to help the invisible man?" And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was ... PATRICK NESS Or perhaps we should just ask Todd." I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinc... PATRICK NESS Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. PATRICK NESS Not everyone has to be the chosen one. 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