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~ All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~

Robert Frost

~ Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ~

Norman Borlaug

~ That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~

F. Scott Fiztgerald

~ Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ~

Tony Robbins

~ There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ~

Robert Half

~ The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. ~

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

~ If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~

Charles M. Schulz

~ 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. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. ~

Warren Christopher

~ The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ~

William Feather

~ 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

~ Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems. ~

Gerry Adams

~ Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ~

Robert Teeter

~ 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. ~

Georg C. Lichtenberg

~ When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority. ~

Jacques Barzun

~ What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It is having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want. ~

Robert Laurence

~ The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. ~

Andy Rooney

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

Rebecca West

~ The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~

Unknown

~ Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. ~

Henry Steele Commager

~ Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful. ~

Unknown

~ If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~

Henry Ford

~ It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown ~

Anatole France

~ Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ~

Mary Kay Ash

~ People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ~

George E. Allen

~ Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ~

Barbara Johnson

~ It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. ~

Gerald R. Ford

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