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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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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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"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast."
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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
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"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter."
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"Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness."
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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
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"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."
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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
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