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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."

"Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires..."

"You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do."

"There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible."

"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."

"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."

"The divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals."
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