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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry Miller
Men
Few
Distinguishes
Ability
Majority
According
Act
Beliefs
The financial security of all Americans - their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college, and opportunities for more and higher-paying jobs - depends on our ability to restore our financial institutions to sound footing.
Henry Paulson
Home
Financial
Opportunities
Values
College
Savings
Our
All Americans
Financial Security
Jobs
Security
Ability
Restore
Borrow
More
Retirement
Footing
Institutions
Sound
American
Depends
The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications.
Henry Spencer
Fly
Complete
Earth
Ability
Voice
Mission
None
Landing
Apollo
Communications
Help
Navigation
Original
Even
Including
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert A. Simon
Nature
Worth
Few
Think
Ought
Our
Out
Would
Ability
Horribly
Rather
Part
Put
Individuals
Over
Along
Most
Terms
Lords
Very
Than
Get
Maybe
Being
Room
Us
Really
Stand
Billion
Unique
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert Hoover
Respect
Peace
Defense
Our
Ability
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom
Possess
Machines
Ability
Exhibit
Thing
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker
God
Training
Else
Ability
Given
Longer
Talent
Stick
God-Given
Than
Anybody
Anybody Else
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun
Love
Distinguishes
Characteristic
Ability
Beasts
Make
Chief
Human
Human Beings
Which
Beings
Making the AI better in a video game is not like making the AI better in, say, a chess game. Making it better in terms of acting ability - we're basically improving its acting so that the user can have more fun.
Hideaki Itsuno
Game
Better
AI
Say
Ability
More
Like
Terms
Making
Chess
Improving
Video
Video Game
Acting
Acting Ability
User
Fun
Basically
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.
Hilary Rosen
Balance
Marketplace
Consistent
Find
Ability
Laws
Between
Courts
Handle
Owners
Users
Shown
Copyright
The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.
Hill Harper
Time
You
Money
Valuable
Ability
More
Longer
Over
Term
Becomes
Dollar
Hold
Younger
Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't.
Hilton Als
Women
Men
Way
Ability
Still
When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.
Hiro Murai
You
Seen
Before
Out
Ability
Horror
Comedic
Perkins
Making
Were
Lot
Expectations
Get
Movies
Subvert
Might
Moment
Element
Things
Playing
Teddy
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
Think
Carefully
Ability
Bearing
Equal
Subject
May
Refuse
Capable
Shoulders
Your
Choose
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking
History
You
Emotions
Long
First
Feeling
Feelings
Sense
Ability
Direct
Emotion
Come
Most
Also
Human
The History Of
Race
Then
Human Race
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick
Ability
Risk
Rationally
Happen
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
Illinois Jacquet
Today
Music
Me
Generation
Made
Ability
Properly
Sound
Been
Essence
Realize
Grasp
Exposed
Eagerness
I think I have the ability and can play a role in T20 cricket for South Africa.
Imran Tahir
South Africa
Think
Cricket
Ability
South
Role
Africa
Play
BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.
Indra Nooyi
Work
Time
Home
Women
World
Care
Digital
Power
Important
Incredibly
Digital World
Ability
Gives
Through
Take
Take Care
Because
Spread
Go
Conference
Same
Same Time
Really
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
World
Punishment
Out
Ability
Both
Absolutely
Writer
He
Part
Almost
Talent
Himself
Equipment
Up
Hands
Stand
Stand Up
Necessary
It goes without saying that I try to do everything to the best of my ability.
Isa Guha
Saying
Best
Try
Everything
Ability
Without
Goes
Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
Isaac Hanson
Band
Own
Other
Weaknesses
Ability
Guys
Weight
Really
Skills
Who
Luckily
Compensate
Two
Pull
Women too often say to themselves, 'It's too difficult. I'm not going to get there.' I tell them: 'Listen: do not question your abilities. Dare to do what you want to do and realize that you can do it.'
Isabelle Kocher
You
Women
You Can Do It
Difficult
Too
Say
Dare
Tell
Ability
Question
Get
Going
Listen
Often
Want
Them
Realize
Themselves
Your
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
J. F. Powers
God
Man
Change
Woman
Wine
Earth
Slime
Ability
Touch
Take
Make
Blood
Bread
Create
Body
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
Control
Carry
Ability
Price
Does
Stock
Company
Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
J. R. Smith
Best
You
Argument
Side
Bad
Ability
Opinion
His
Get
Certain
Coaches
Your
Express
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