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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 capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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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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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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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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"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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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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"You are capable of great deeds."
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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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"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
"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
"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
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"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
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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