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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

  Milan Kundera

  Women, Events, Action

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Alive, Cease

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Burns: A Kate Daniels Novel: 2”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Pain, Blessing

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.173, St. Martin's Press

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• My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Miracle, Tasks, Dear Sister

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• Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Angel, Mutants

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• I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

  Muriel Barbery

  Foundation, Belief, Manipulate

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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• I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Acting, Together, Virtue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Confusing, Looks, Mess

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.184, Scholastic Inc.

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• My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Anxiety, Acne

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

  Lawrence Welk

  Joy, Use, Able

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

  Ben Stiller

  Creative, Tests, Comedy

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• The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambition, Men, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Able, Given

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  School, Sight, Scripture

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.481, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivation, Destiny, Champion

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “How to get what you want”, p.18, FV Éditions

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• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

  Oswald Chambers

  Might, Self Knowledge, Can Do

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• I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Megan Fox

  Movie, Mean, Winning

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• The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Leader, Different

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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• I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Unique, Opportunity, Space

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• I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Used, Walks

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• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Equality, Principles, Taxation

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.525, Best Books on

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