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

Ability, Events

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

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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

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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."

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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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"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."

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"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."

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"The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world."

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"Democracy fascinates me."

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"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."

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"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."

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"For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas."

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"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."

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

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"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."

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"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."

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