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"If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others."
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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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"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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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives."
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"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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"Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton."
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"If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest."
Mind
"Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing."
Emotional
"When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm."
Time
"If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"
Heart
"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."
Power
"Human nature is what Heaven supplies."
Nature
"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
Death
"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."
Disaster
"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."
Nature
"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."
Travel
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