"When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them."
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"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow"
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"My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability."
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"The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability."
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"A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead."
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"Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement."
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"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
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"The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help."
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"Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins."
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"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do"
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters."
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"Our generosity never should exceed our abilities."
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"Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more."
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"I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments."
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
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"Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love."
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"And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you."
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