"I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well."
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"We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it."
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"Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength."
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"The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce."
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"Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend."
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"Talent is being able to please people."
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"I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives."
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"One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much."
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"Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give."
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"There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . ."
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"The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so."
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"Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not."
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"Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws."
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"I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something."
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"What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered."
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"I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!"
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"The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I knew that Mickalene's [Tomas] work would be able to encompass all the many states of being that are in the book."
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"One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort."
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"To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty."
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"Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life."
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