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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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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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Personal Development
"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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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"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?"
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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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."
Ability
"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."
Man
"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."
Age
"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."
Art
"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."
Originality
"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."
Influence
"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."
Imagination
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Age
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
Man
"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
Civilization
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