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"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
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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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"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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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives."
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"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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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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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
Animals
"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."
Nature
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
Diversity
"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
Body
"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
Mankind
"Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths."
Diversity
"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."
Home
"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
Fact
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
Geography
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
Geology
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