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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
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"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

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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."

"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."

"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."

"When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier."

"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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