"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."

Ability, Will

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"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."

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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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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

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"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

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"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

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"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

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"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."

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"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."

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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."

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