A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ability Commonly Consist Degree Found High Mainly Solemnity

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

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Holly Hunter

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Mark Twain

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

Lynn Schusterman

The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.

Charles Darwin

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George Mason

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Joyce Brothers

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Gene Sharp

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.