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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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Personal Development
"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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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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Personal Development
"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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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"He is every other inch a gentleman."
Appearance
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
Art
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Science
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
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