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~ One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~

~ The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

~ A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~

Clifton Fadiman

~ Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ~

Morris Raphael Cohen

~ I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish... it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality. ~

Michael Jackson

~ Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. ~

Carl Rogers

~ Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~

Rebecca West

~ When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ~

David Brin

~ I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. ~

John Poindexter

~ One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition ~

Alvin Toffler

~ The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. ~

Sylvia Kristel

~ I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. ~

Lynn M. Osband

~ Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~

Thor Heyerdahl

~ Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ~

Anita Brookner

~ Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability. ~

Wes Fessler

~ The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. ~

Dave E. Smalley

~ All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. ~

Henry Ford

~ Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. ~

Ray Knight

~ The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. ~

Sylvia Kristel

~ Only one-third of the water that annually runs to the sea is accessible to humans. Of this, more than half is already being appropriated and used. This proportion might not seem so much, but demand will double in thirty years. And much of what is available is degraded by eroded silt, sewage, industrial pollution, chemicals, excess nutrients, and plagues of algae. Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries ~

Marq de Villiers

~ Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff--Watchout! ~

Walter E. Williams

~ It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to society.† ~

Antoine Lavoisier†

~ The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. ~

Ike Skelton

~ The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. ~

Simone Weil

~ Engineering is the science and art of efficient dealing with materials and forces... it involves the most economic design and execution... assuring, when properly performed, the most advantageous combination of accuracy, safety, durability, speed, simplicity, efficiency, and economy possible for the conditions of design and service. ~

J. A. L. Waddell, Frank W. Skinner, and H. E. Wess

~ This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. ~

Andrew Carnegie

~ When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very center. ~

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

~ Instinct is untaught ability. ~

Bain

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