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"Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool."
"The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself."
"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking."
"Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one."
"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."
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"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."
"Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself."
"Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely."
"The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change."
"If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you."
"I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion."
"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."
"But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?"
"Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that."
"The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it"
"I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read."
"My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all."
"There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival."
"For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now."
"You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better."
"Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope."
"A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."
"Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
"I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely."
"To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast"
