Ability

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  • CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
        Lord Acton   Best?
  • ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their clames to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
        Alford   Best?
  • Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
        William Plomer   Best?
  • Ability is of little account without opportunity.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • What you cannot enforce, do not command.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
        Marcus Aurelius Antoninus   Best?
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
        Michael McClary   Best?
  • That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
        A. Whitney Brown   Best?
  • Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
        Pat Paulsen   Best?
  • "We all all capeable of great things, if only we could learn without failing."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
        Austin Farrar   Best?
  • No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
        Napoleon Hill   Best?
  • MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class -- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
        Bill Moyers   Best?
  • Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
        George F. Will   Best?
  • There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
        Epictetus   Best?
  • I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.
        Madeleine K. Albright   Best?
  • My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.
        Egyptian Proverb   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • We judge the future by the past. Achieving success is one's ability to look at yesterday, cease today and capture tomorrow's opportunity.
        Gregory Kerber   Best?
  • Diplomacy: lying in state.
        Oliver Hereford   Best?

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