"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Ability, Exercise, Learning, Writing

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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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

Ability, Body

"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

Ability, Guitar, Play

"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

Ability, Job

"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

"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."

Rick Larsen, American Politician

Ability, Understanding, World

"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

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"The best project is one that asks a novel question."

Project

"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

Evolution

"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."

Being

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."

Power

"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."

People

"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."

Science

"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."

Study

"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Ability

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Animals

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."

Science