"All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again."
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"Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others."
"I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed."
"To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead."
"Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God."
"I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."
"We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us."
"There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you."
"Well, it has been my dream since I was very little to be able to sing, dance and act all in one project so in Make It Pop I was able to do that all that."
"You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character."
"Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S."
"Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?"
"She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her."
"As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans."
"We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing."
"Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream."
"If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves."
"We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.""
"I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right."
"Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat."