"Being able to laugh got me through."
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"What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?"
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"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."
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"The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood."
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"I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism."
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"Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be."
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"With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action."
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"I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that."
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"It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community."
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"When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all."
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"[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market."
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"Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time."
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""Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards"."
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"I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries."
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"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible."
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"Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans."
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"We are not all able to do all things."
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"Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself"
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