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Ability Quotes
"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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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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"You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up."
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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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"The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it."
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"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."
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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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"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
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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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"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."
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"One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself."
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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 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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"A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest."
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"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
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"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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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 like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"
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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
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"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental 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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"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
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"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."
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"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
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"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
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