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• The ability to say no is one of the greatest gifts any parent can have.
  Well, unless you count the ability to stay with this position in spite of all the requests that are made for reconsideration....
• Probably one of the greatest tests of self-control is expertise in the ability to perform a task
  while watching someone do what you can do so well, in the wrong way, with predictably disasterous results, and not say anything....
• The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
  -- Gunnar Myrdal...
• Power is not an ability.
• You're the greatest.
• Ability is the poor man's wealth.
• IMPOTENCE -- lack of response-ability.
• A society that lacks the patience to read, and loses the ability to do so, is rendered defenseless against its most profound stupidities.
  As an example, consider the ease with which Americans came to regard a president known for his inaccuracy and imprecision as the great communicator, and by the tendency of American elections to give victory to the candidate who can afford the greatest number of 30-second TV spots....
• The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.