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Ability Quotes
"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
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"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
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"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
42
"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."
37
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
36
"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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"I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle."
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"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
35
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
34
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
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"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
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"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances."
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"By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person."
31
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
31
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
30
"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
29
"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
28
"I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary."
28
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
27
"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
27
"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
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"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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