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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020