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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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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."
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
"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?"
"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."
"The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship."
"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."
"Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars."
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting."
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