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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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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Crush, Powerful, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nice, Lobster, Bodyguard

  "Neverwhere". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Husband, Women

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.143, Penguin

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• As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Epic, Doubt

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, People, Needs

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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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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Life, Positive, Gratitude

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

  Haruki Murakami

  Expression, Scary, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

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