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We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it, and I don't have any need to join into that ever again. It's too counterproductive to writing music and performing to the best of your abilities. It's okay when you're 20 years old - you're getting out there and you're learning - but not when you're 30 years old.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Wisdom is the ability to read between the lines, listen out for messages that the universe gives us. I've been taught that that is true knowledge and that is completely different to the way we are programmed to learn. We are trained to be able to put the right answer with the right question. We don't really have to know the answer.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Without a goal, you cannot survive.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.