"Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself."
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"True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe."
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"Generosity should never exceed ability."
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"At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability."
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"Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems."
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"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."
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"I've never doubted my ability."
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"I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan."
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"Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have."
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"You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience."
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"I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience."
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"I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership."
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"At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe."
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"I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control."
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"So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love."
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"You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking."
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"Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer."
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"I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief."
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"One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working."
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"I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be."
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