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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

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Ability, Taxes

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Ability, Vitality

"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep."

Megan Fox, American Actress

Ability, Acting, Want

"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."

Kathleen Winsor, American Author

Ability, Charm, Pretty

"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

Ability, Difficulty, World

"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."

Steve Bartlett, American Politician

Ability, Advice, Americans, Investment

"I felt the familiar warm tingling at the center of my chest and had just enough time to gasp as some invisible hand yanked me forward, smacking my forehead against the dashboard with enough force to stun me dumb. Chubs slammed on the brakes, forcing my seat belt to do its job and lock against my chest. I was thrown back into my seat, an explosion of colors bursting in my vision. 'Oh, hell no!' Chubs roared, slamming a hand against the steering wheel. 'That's it! We don not use our abilities on one another, goddammit! Behave yourself!"

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

Ability, Control, Conflict, Power

"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."

Philip E. Berger, American Politician

Ability, Confidence, Conservative, Focus

"You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

Willard Libby, American Scientist

Ability, Honor, Results

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"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."

Love

"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."

Gentleman

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

Being

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

Change

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

Fault

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

Corruption

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

Thought

"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

Act

"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."

Resentment

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

Change