"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."

Ability, Feeling, Nothing

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"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."

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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."

Tom Wopat, American Actor

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"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons."

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"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."

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"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."

Lawrence Eagleburger, American Diplomat

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"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

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"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."

Gary Miller, American Politician

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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

Johann G. Hamann, German Philosopher

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"Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton."

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"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel."

Tim Murphy, Canadian Politician

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"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment."

Bob Ney, American Politician

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"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."

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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

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"When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic."

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

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"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

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"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."

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"It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him."

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