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

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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

Ability, Education, Talent, Body

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

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Ability, Journey, Value

"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

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

Donna Summer, American Musician

Ability, Mind

"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

Ability,

"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

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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

Education

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

People

"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

Ethics

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

Religion

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

Society

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

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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."

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

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

"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."

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

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

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

"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."

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

"Ability without honor is useless."

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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"

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

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."