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“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
“Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile”
Stephen R. Covey
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
Flannery O'Connor
“Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.”
Whitney M. Young Jr.
“Leadership is the ability to do, not the ability to state”
Paul Von Ringelheim
“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
Dianne Feinstein
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
John Ruskin
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
Winston Churchill
“What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.”
Mary Austin