Quotes 201 till 220 of 278.
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
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The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
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The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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