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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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"Ability without honor is useless."
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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"You are capable of great deeds."
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."
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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
"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
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"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
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
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