"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

Ability, Language, Reason

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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

Ability, America, Cunning, Fact

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"We are capable of greatness."

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

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"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."

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"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."

"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."

"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."

"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."