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“People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.”

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Book:Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Source: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

“In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.”

Firsts Able Order Accomplish

Book:Satan Speaks!

Source: Satan Speaks!

“Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?”

Ifs Thinking Able

Book:One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

“I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.”

Able Wonder Morning Knowing Lucky Wake Up Every Morning Sense Of Wonder

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”

Knows Seems Able Wonderful Just One Do You Know Wonderful Things

Author:Rebecca West

“When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.”

Years Able Born Humorous Fourteen

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

“Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.”

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Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.”

Philosophy Able Conviction Rational Hysterical Disapproval

Author:Alain de Botton

“If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.”

People Ifs Has Beens Able Strong Marxist

Author:Fidel Castro

“Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.”

Heart Able Danger Serious Rain Seasons Dry Village Makers

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

People Would Be Able Past Asks Rich Forgiving Civilized Fulfilling Forgive Me

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.”

Able Christ Danger Guides Ice Thee Horizon Get Over Compass Lashes Intercession Alpine Beyond The Horizon

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”

People Heart Real Use Able Form Half Compassion

Book:Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson

Source: Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson

“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.”

Humans Able Individual Given Imagination Common Expression Capacity Dignity Democratic Practicals Common Sense Thanks Panic Underrated

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.”

Men Able Action Virtue Citizens Selfish Charm Savages Inviting

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.”

People Thinking May Mean Facts Able Social Theory Evolution Aspect Scientist Philosopher Curious Biology Theory Of Evolution

Author:Jacques Monod

“Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.”

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Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.”

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Author:Roger Moore

“Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

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Author:Will Smith

“I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.”

Want Giving Hard Shows Able Young Pay Fans Tickets

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks and sounds like I'm able to have fun there, then I'm all for it.”

Ifs Looks Able Certain Fun Sound Having Fun Location

Author:Justin Bieber

“I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.”

Want Looks Able Train Careful Nine Kung Fu

Author:Channing Tatum

“As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying I Can Able Actors Mistake Pressure Over The Top No Pressure

Author:Channing Tatum

“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."”

Able Wanted Building One Day Hey Burning Ran Survived Grandpa Hey You Grandkids Burning Buildings

Author:Channing Tatum

“The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.”

Kind Use Able Opportunity Given Voice Blessing All Kinds

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.”

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Author:Walter Isaacson

“You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.”

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Author:John Wooden

“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”

People Way Able Wanted Train Library Lifts Educate Better Ways Andrew Carnegie

Author:David Nasaw

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

Thinking Should May Able Mother Universe Black Born Space Answers Principles Theory Fundamentals Holes Strings Fabric Time And Space Black Hole Warp String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.”

Want Able Accepting One Thing Tradition Pot Melting Melting Pot

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.”

People Knows Sometimes Problem Able Film Fun Waiting Waiting Around

Author:Tim Burton

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”