Ability Quotes
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If parents and grandparents vote to leave, they'll be voting to gamble with their children and grandchildren's future. At a time when people are rightly concerned about inter-generational fairness, the most unfair decision that the older generation could make would be to take Britain out of Europe and damage the ability of young people to get on in life.
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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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We keep growing because more people are concerned about improving their health, regardless of their age or ability.
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.
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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
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What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.
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It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.
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The ability to be successful should be a good thing.
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
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Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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We tried to get him the ball. That was one of the strategies we tried to do coming into the game. With his size and his ability, one of the things we wanted to do was get him the ball.
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Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
