"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

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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

Ability, Exercise, Learning, Writing

"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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"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

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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

Ability, Song

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

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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

Ability, Challenge, Perspective, Will

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

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

"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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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."

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"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

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"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

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"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

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"Being seventy is not a sin."

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