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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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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"We are all capable!"
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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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"There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second."
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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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"The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be."
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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."
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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun


"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body


"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


"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


"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy


"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History


"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading


"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


"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
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