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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb | Ability | 8 bookmarks

"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Temple, Sir William | Ability | 2 bookmarks

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Fields, W. C. | Abstinence | 3 bookmarks

"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

Temple, Sir William | Abstinence | 2 bookmarks

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. | Ability | 15 bookmarks

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas | Ability | 24 bookmarks

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. | Ability | 7 bookmarks

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Ability | 3 bookmarks

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew | Ability | 12 bookmarks

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De | Ability | 4 bookmarks

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I'm male from the United States and made my book on 23rd October 2007.

50+ year old chronic pain ridden photographer

I'm in my 50s and was "retired" due to a career ending injury. I spend my time now dealing with Chronic Pain , helping in pain support groups and have become an amateur photographer

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