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~ Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services. ~

John Hutton

~ You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively. ~

Brian Tracy

~ Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. ~

Cavett Robert

~ The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life. ~

James Fixx

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~ The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. ~

Michael Bergdahl

~ Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results. ~

Larry Bossidy

~ In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ~

James L. Buckley

~ In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ~

Charles Babbage

~ 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 centre. ~

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

James L. Buckley

~ Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~

Douglas Adams

~ Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you. ~

HAL ROTHMAN

~ My character was formed by mountaineering. Enduring rainy slopes and cold bivouacs to spend an hour at the top of the world shaped my ability to handle adversity. ~

Candice Carpenter

~ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ~

Thorstein Veblen

~ Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. ~

Chen Shui-bian

~ Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. ~

La Rochefoucauld

~ Becoming a broker in multiple states is one of the things we are exploring, as regulations and data availability vary by state and we think this could help. ~

Amy Bohutinsky

~ The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged. ~

Fritjof Capra

~ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband). ~

James Thurber

~ Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ~

Gian Carlo Menotti

~ Given elephants' ability to transform an entire landscape, action is needed, or the result will be the mass starvation of elephants and other species. ~

Rob Little

~ The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old. ~

Robertson Davies

~ Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. ~

SIMON MAWER

~ 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. ~

William Hazlitt

~ In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord. ~

Vinoba Bhave

~ The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability. ~

Barbra Streisand

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