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Ability Quotes
"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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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."
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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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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
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"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."
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"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability."
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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with 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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"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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"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
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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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"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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"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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"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter."
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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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"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
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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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"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
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"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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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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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship."
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"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."
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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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"He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you."
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."
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"Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing."
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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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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