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Ability Quotes
"Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful."
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"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."
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"NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage."
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"In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn."
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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."
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"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
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"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."
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"I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits."
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"The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users."
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"I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us."
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"The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd."
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"When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier."
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"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."
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"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."
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"That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you."
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"Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness."
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"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."
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"I felt the familiar warm tingling at the center of my chest and had just enough time to gasp as some invisible hand yanked me forward, smacking my forehead against the dashboard with enough force to stun me dumb. Chubs slammed on the brakes, forcing my seat belt to do its job and lock against my chest. I was thrown back into my seat, an explosion of colors bursting in my vision. 'Oh, hell no!' Chubs roared, slamming a hand against the steering wheel. 'That's it! We don not use our abilities on one another, goddammit! Behave yourself!"
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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