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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to read more
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a read more
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
They are able because they think they are able.
They are able because they think they are able.
Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved read more
Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in domestic battering?
Is it men or women who commit
the most rapes?
Is it men or women who
vote for the most executions?
Is it men or women who promote
war, vote for war, kill in war?
Is it men or women who as
'talk show hosts' allow no talk?
Is it men or women who
are more often pedophiles?
Is it men or women who torture
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.