Able Quotes
10642 Able quotes by 6238 unique authors
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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and…
— Karl Marx
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose…
— Gilles Deleuze
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I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and…
— Roger Federer
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That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand…
— Marat Safin
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I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel…
— Monica Seles
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Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion
— Dwight Macdonald
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It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
— John F. Kennedy
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I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how…
— Thom Yorke
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
— Mike Mansfield
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
— David Mamet
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color…
— Johannes Itten
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz.…
— Ian MacKaye
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able…
— Wesley Clark
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Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word…
— Ezra Klein
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who…
— Samuel R. Delany
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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem…
— Clifford D. Simak
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We…
— Jean Craighead George
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It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it
— Carol Alt
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was…
— John D. Rockefeller
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