"The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember."
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"I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes."
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"How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?"
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"When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world."
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"Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them."
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"If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this."
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"Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself."
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"It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit."
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"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even."
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"Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization."
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"We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime."
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"How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous."
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"Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world."
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"I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny."
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"Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again."
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"He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men."
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"For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite."
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"It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well."
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"The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them."
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"Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out."
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