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• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Anxiety, Self Improvement

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 19, 2011

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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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• Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Moving, Choices, Bidding

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.259, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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 love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

  Margaret Cho

  Pain, Sadness, Fighting

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• Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

  Bill Watterson

  Indulge In, Excess, Financial

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

  Charles Bukowski

  Years, Desire, Needs

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.238, Canongate Books

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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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• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Lying, Greatness, America

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIII, 1835.

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• I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

  Richard Pryor

  Thanksgiving, Believe, Struggle

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Life, Change

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

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• We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Asks

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• Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.

  Joseph Batten

  Reality, Weakness, Tools

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• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life And Love, Congratulations, Entrepreneur

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

  Paul Gauguin

  Powerful, Winning, Tools

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Army

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Anger, Society

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Believe, Men

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• I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

  Martina Hingis

  Girl, Sports, Fitness

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