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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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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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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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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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"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."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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"You are capable of great deeds."
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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
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"To innovate is not to reform."
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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
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"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
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"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
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