"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard."
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"Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish."
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"For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior."
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"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
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"The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form."
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"One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth."
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"Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly"
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"I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well."
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"Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph."
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"Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin."
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"It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now."
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"You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware."
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"for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
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"And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?"
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"I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film."
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"To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives."
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"What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable."
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"Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy."
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"In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time."
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