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"The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm."

Alexander Woollcott, American Critic

Ability, English, Flying

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"The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm."

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

"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?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

Ability, America, Cunning, Fact

"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."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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