"The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations."

Ability, Nations, United

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"The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations."

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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We are capable of greatness."

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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."

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

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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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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."

Tom Lehrer, American Musician

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."

Bruce Sterling, American Writer

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"You are capable of great deeds."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

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"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."

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"The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations."

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"If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts."

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"The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights."

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"The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily."

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