"The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little."
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"With a sort of mental squint."
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"We do what we can. The results are none of our business."
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"If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success."
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"No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants."
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"No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time."
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""Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law."
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"It is always our inabilities that vex us."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside."
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"Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way."
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