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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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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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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Ambition
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love
"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
People
"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
Truth
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
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