"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are."

Ability, Deeds, World

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"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are."

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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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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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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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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?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Tom Lehrer, American Musician

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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

Needs,

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

Family, People, Pretty

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

Connection, Forget, Light, Past, Smile

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Cultural, Culture, Future

"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

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"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

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