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Letter "A" » abilities
«It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.»
«My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.»
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, incredible, neat, neater, pursue, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, start-off, students
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Plants
| Keywords:
abilities, at large, bounded, directions, give forth, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, studies
«Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Education,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
abilities, benefit, developing, fulfilled, translated, translates, translating
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school
«Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
abilities, applied, confounding, confounds, elude, eludes, eluding, explained, interpreted, lie in, perverting
«Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
abilities, consideration, with consideration
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