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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Author: Douglas Everett
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James A. Froude
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Author: Robert Half
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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Author: Gail Hamilton
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Author: John G. Pollard
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Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Author: Chinese Proverb
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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Author: Robert Quillen
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Author: Theodor Reik
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Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Author: Anthony Robbins
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Author: Sir William Temple
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Author: Anonymous
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God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
Author: Anonymous
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues
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They are able because they think they are able.
Author: Virgil
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Author: Stevie Wonder
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Author: John Wooden
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Author: M. Wren
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Author: John Henry Newman
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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Author: John G. Pollard
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Author: Horace Walpole
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Author: Josh Billings
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Author: Edward Hand
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The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Author: Henry Ford
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Author: Sam Rayburn
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Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Author: English Proverb
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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They are able because they think they are able.
Author: Vergil
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Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in domestic battering?
Is it men or women who commit
the most rapes?
Is it men or women who
vote for the most executions?
Is it men or women who promote
war, vote for war, kill in war?
Is it men or women who as
'talk show hosts' allow no talk?
Is it men or women who
are more often pedophiles?
Is it men or women who torture
lab animals more?
Author: O Anna Niemus
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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