"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"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

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"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

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

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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

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"There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed."

Gail Sheehy, American Writer

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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

Democracy

"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."

Attention

"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."

Nation

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience."

People

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world."

Power

"You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence."

Intelligence

"But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right."

Government

"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."

Politics

"We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option."

Nothing

"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."

Politics