"One cannot be able in life by fearing to live."
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"Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me."
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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"The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind"
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"I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing."
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"But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current."
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"Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it."
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"You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me."
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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
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"Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you."
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"Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able."
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"In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"If you convey God's words to someone only with the intention to utilize him in some way, you will never be able to establish the standard of the "Way." Give what you have to others with your sincere heart."
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"When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love."
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"I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
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"I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human."
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"Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them."
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"For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm."
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"They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now."
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