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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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Personal Development

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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Personal Development

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."
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Personal Development

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."
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Personal Development

"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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Personal Development

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
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Personal Development

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
Road

"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."
Fashion

"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."
Love

"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."
Love

"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Mathematics

"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
Man

"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society

"The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years."
Politics

"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
Time

"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People
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