"Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf."
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"I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up."
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"When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient."
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"I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow."
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"Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource."
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"The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account."
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"I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me."
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"If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds."
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"At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other."
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"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."
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"All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one."
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"Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best."
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"I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive."
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
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"A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life."
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"What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible."
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"It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough."
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"I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution."
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"Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories."
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"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me."
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