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"Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration."
"If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg."
"One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity."
"It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself."
"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."
"At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized."
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
"One must be able to let things happen."
"Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living."
"Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail."
"Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts."
"Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you."
"The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas."
"My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us."
"Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them"
"Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way."
"If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working."
"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."
"There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for."
"you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance."
