"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

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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."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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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."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."

Rick Larsen, American Politician

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability."

William Feather, American Author

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"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."

Spiritual

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

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"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."

Spiritual

"But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'."

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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."

Behavior

"Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word."

Morality

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

Philosophy

"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."

Spiritual

"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."

Truth

"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."

Understanding