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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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Personal Development

"Ability without honor is useless."
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Personal Development

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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Personal Development

"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

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

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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Personal Development

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
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Personal Development

"You are capable of great deeds."
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Personal Development

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."
Ability

"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."
People

"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
Technology

"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
Consciousness

"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."
Society

"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."
Time

"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."
Books

"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"
Character

"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"
Society
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