Able Quotes
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
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I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
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Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
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It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.
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I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
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I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.
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Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
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The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.
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I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned.
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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.
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What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
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All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
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I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
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Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.
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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
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A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge
