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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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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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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"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."
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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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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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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?"
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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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."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart

"Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thought

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
Work

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Business

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being

"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
Perception
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