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• I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Aqueducts, Stories, Flow

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• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

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• She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

  Charles Dickens

  Ideas, House, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

  William Mathews

  Men, Helping, Obstacles

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.89, Belford Bros.

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• The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Important, Strategy, Managers

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 27), 1968.

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• NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

  Allen Weinstein

  Staff, Protect, Patron

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• (For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Important, Musician, Development

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Mind

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• Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

  Thomas Paine

  Self Esteem, Men, Titles

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• This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude.

  Eddie McGuire

  Football, Goodbye, Attitude

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• There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

  Susan Rice

  Government, People, United States

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. September 16, 2012.

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

  John S. Watson

  Needs, Generations, Coal

  "Chevron's CEO: Affordable Energy Is Crucial". The Associated Press Interview, www.fool.com. December 27, 2012.

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• We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

  Peter Facinelli

  Reality, Thinking, Worry

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• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  Nader al-Masri

  Athlete, Palestinian, Committees

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• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

  Alan Turing

  Exercise, Two, Intuition

  "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 45, 1939.

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• But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.

  Gina McCarthy

  Design, Needs, Attention

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• As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like.

  Michael Langford

  Envy, Wish, Hobbies

  Michael Langford (1998). “Advanced Photography”, p.18, Taylor & Francis

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• It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

  Aristotle

  Doubt, Wish, Objects

  Aristotle (2013). “The Metaphysics”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

  John Locke

  Country, Kings, Lying

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• The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Australia, People, Motorcycle

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• The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts.

  Jeff Smith

  Unique, Tools, Maintenance

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• I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

  John Lithgow

  Serious, Painting, Talent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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