"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Ability, Taxes

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing

"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

Ability, Difference, Man

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"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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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Ability, Education, Natural, Glory

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

Stendhal, French Writer

Ability, First

"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Language

"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."

Action

"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

Choice

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Age

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Law

"Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!"

Society

"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

Society

"Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence."

Humor

"Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada."

Society

"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."

Society