"When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it."
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"The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill."
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"He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill."
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"Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop."
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"Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay."
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"What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now."
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"At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans."
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"It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment."
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"He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life."
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"I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?""
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"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
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"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance."
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"Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you."
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"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
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"Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills."
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"I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill."
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"Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice."
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"I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill."
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