"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."
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"If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone."
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"When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn."
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"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
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"I need to be able to rock out."
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"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."
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"You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person."
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"The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door."
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"Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd."
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"I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had."
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"The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet."
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"You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world."
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"I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
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"When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation."
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"Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university."
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"As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."
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"There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that."
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"[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."
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"Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it."
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"A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him."
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