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Ability Quotes
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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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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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
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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."
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"You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up."
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"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
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"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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"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."
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"For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late."
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
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"The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of."
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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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"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
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"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations."
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"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."
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"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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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 think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary."
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability."
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"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."
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"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
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"A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest."
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"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
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"One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself."
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"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
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"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
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"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
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