"Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement."
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"A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her."
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"I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share."
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"I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily."
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"We've come to the point where we're no longer able to protect our national values. Where will it all end?"
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"It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you."
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"I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help."
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"I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone."
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"I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well."
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"Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?"
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"The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper."
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"Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able."
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"A faith is that which is able to survive a mood."
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"I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression."
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"In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends."
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"Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience."
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"A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed."
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"Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right"
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"Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge."
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"I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race."
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