"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."

Ability, Evil

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"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Robert Half, American Businessman

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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Explore more quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."

Choice

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

Nature

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

Life

"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."

Psychology

"What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it."

Life

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."

Life

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

Experience

"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."

Change

"Every man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"

Philosophy

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."

Fear