"[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed."
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"There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say."
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"I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression."
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"Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women."
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"Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity."
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"Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers."
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"Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?"
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"If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well."
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"With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely."
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"I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career."
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"A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders."
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"The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back."
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"When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true."
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"Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man."
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"How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?"
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"Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest."
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"We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual."
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"The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love."
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"I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?"
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"Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."
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