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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
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Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) -
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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