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Politics is 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
So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
Kim Dae Jung
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
William Graham Sumner
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway 
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
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The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
Will McDonough
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The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.
Ron Johnson
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
Lennart Meri
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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
John Frusciante
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