#ability

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ape #cannot #draw #likewise #man

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#continuously #council #days #enormous #global

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#country #development #efforts #financial #financial stability

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#actually #body #capture #dancer #essence

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#i #i think #innate #inner #inner voice

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

#betray #calculate #every #every nation #loss

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

#clever #could #defect #half #many

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#been #body #brain #else #good