Ability

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  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
        Karin Meienburg   Best?
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
        Dennis Miller   Best?
  • When you control the ball, you control the score.
        Pele   Best?
  • Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
        Leo Buscaglia   Best?
  • Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
        Leone Levi   Best?
  • Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Ability is nothing without opportunity.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
        Unknown   Best?
  • On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  • Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
        Frederick The Great   Best?
  • Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
        Kirk Brothers   Best?
  • Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
        Paul Graham   Best?
  • What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.
        Toni Morrison   Best?
  • We don't see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.
        Janet Fitch   Best?
  • Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
        Wachowski Brothers   Best?
  • [Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
        Reverend W. Awdry   Best?
  • The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
        Socrates   Best?
  • If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
        Buddha   Best?
  • The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us
        Robert Burns   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
        Nicole Kidman   Best?
  • Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
        Raymond Lindquist   Best?
  • He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?

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