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Ability Quotes
"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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"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
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"Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that."
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"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
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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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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture."
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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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"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."
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"I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary."
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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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"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
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"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband)."
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"Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing."
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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too."
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"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel."
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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."
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"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
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"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."
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"After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive."
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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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"If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?"
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"The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."
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"It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder."
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"This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing."
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"I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground."
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