"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

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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

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Ability, Taxes

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Ability, Vitality

"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."

Kathleen Winsor, American Author

Ability, Charm, Pretty

"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

Ability, Difficulty, World

"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."

Steve Bartlett, American Politician

Ability, Advice, Americans, Investment

"I felt the familiar warm tingling at the center of my chest and had just enough time to gasp as some invisible hand yanked me forward, smacking my forehead against the dashboard with enough force to stun me dumb. Chubs slammed on the brakes, forcing my seat belt to do its job and lock against my chest. I was thrown back into my seat, an explosion of colors bursting in my vision. 'Oh, hell no!' Chubs roared, slamming a hand against the steering wheel. 'That's it! We don not use our abilities on one another, goddammit! Behave yourself!"

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

Ability, Control, Conflict, Power

"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."

Philip E. Berger, American Politician

Ability, Confidence, Conservative, Focus

"You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

Willard Libby, American Scientist

Ability, Honor, Results

"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"

Demetri Martin, American Comedian

Ability, Hell, Mail

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"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

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"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

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"Dangers by being despised grow great."

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"To innovate is not to reform."

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

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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."

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

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

"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."

"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."

"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."

"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."

"You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"

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"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."

"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

"Dangers by being despised grow great."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."