Able Quotes
10642 quotes by 6545 authors
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able…
— Learned Hand
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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to…
— Master P
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When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able…
— John Perez
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
— Lord Acton
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
— Maya Angelou
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.
— Laozi
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It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does…
— Bernard Malamud
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been…
— Helen Reddy
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able…
— Alice Walker
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
— John Ruskin
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got…
— Kate Moss
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.…
— Watchman Nee
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that…
— William J. Clinton
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for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.
— Sun Tzu
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The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.
— Sun Tzu
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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
— Sun Tzu
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