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#1. I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near. - Author: Manfred Von Richthofen

#2. I wanted what women always want: permission. But he'd had that before this book was even written; it was, after all, the first thing I'd envied about him. It was arguably what enabled him to write the book in the first place. ("Envy") - Author: Kathryn Chetkovich

#3. The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live. - Author: Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

#4. Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever. - Author: Dervla Murphy

#5. Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#6. It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. - Author: Herbert Read

#7. Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things. - Author: John Bunyan

#8. Sham idealists: the quite large number of people who profess ideals as a form of premium for other-life insurance, and are content to lay up slavery and destitution for their descendants so long as they are enabled to produce personal copybooks of elevated views at the gate of heaven. - Author: John Wyndham

#9. But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#10. In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. - Author: V.S. Naipaul

#11. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. - Author: Nick Hornby

#12. As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce. - Author: Leonard Boswell

#13. In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one. - Author: Lakshmi Mittal

#14. I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care. - Author: Dave DeBronkart

#15. What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more." - Author: Jack Canfield

#16. To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which enabled the individual to challenge authority or the state. - Author: Orlando Figes

#17. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. - Author: Thucydides

#18. By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#19. Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. - Author: John Sculley

#20. What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#21. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time. - Author: Lex Luger

#22. Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes. - Author: Matthew Reilly

#23. I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness. - Author: Samuel Richardson

#24. One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history. - Author: Barbara Mikulski

#25. The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ. - Author: John Flavel

#26. The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole. - Author: Kofi Annan

#27. I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death. - Author: Katherine Paterson

#28. It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. - Author: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#29. The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it. - Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice

#30. Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be. - Author: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#31. I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world. - Author: Mark Suster

#32. I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am. - Author: Judith Guest

#33. Exile has enabled me to discover the rest of the world, to meet other peoples, to get to know other traditions. Nothing could be more valuable. - Author: Dalai Lama XIV

#34. Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman. - Author: Jennifer Chiaverini

#35. Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. - Author: Plato

#36. Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego. - Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#37. On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself. - Author: Andy Lally

#38. If you're fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don't know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one's own culture. - Author: William Gibson

#39. The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world. - Author: B.F. Skinner

#40. He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment. - Author: Herodotus

#41. My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. - Author: Robert Moog

#42. Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around. - Author: Peter A. Lorge

#43. A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. - Author: Kit Bond

#44. A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities. - Author: Ashwin Sanghi

#45. Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. - Author: Muhammad Yunus

#46. Abled does not mean enabled.
Disabled does not mean less abled. - Author: Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#47. Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. - Author: Camille Paglia

#48. Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#49. I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience. - Author: Meryl Davis

#50. It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. - Author: John Quincy Adams

#51. The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. - Author: Michael Oxley

#52. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. - Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

#53. For when it pleased the Lord in Aug. 1829, to bring me really to the Scriptures, my life and walk became very different. And though even since that I have very much fallen short of what I might and ought to be, yet, by the grace of God, I have been enabled to live much nearer to Him than before. "If - Author: George Muller

#54. I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls. - Author: Isabel Allende

#55. Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time. - Author: Kobo Abe

#56. The moon now drew a faint light over their path, and, soon after, enabled them to distinguish some towers rising above the tops of the woods. - Author: Ann Radcliffe

#57. In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.' - Author: Allen West

#58. The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. - Author: Fisher Stevens

#59. Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#60. Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis. - Author: Henry Kravis

#61. The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. - Author: Cecil Frank Powell

#62. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties. - Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

#63. The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy. - Author: Rebecca West

#64. What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room. - Author: Vint Cerf

#65. Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. - Author: Toba Beta

#66. For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. - Author: Norman Borlaug

#67. God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#68. Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville. - Author: Karen Abbott

#69. Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. - Author: Conrad Black

#70. The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming. - Author: Vint Cerf

#71. Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world. - Author: Billy Graham

#72. Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. - Author: Edward Bond

#73. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity. - Author: David B. Lentz

#74. Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values. - Author: Raymond Arroyo

#75. Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency. - Author: Cynthia P. Schneider

#76. Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail. - Author: Albert J. Nock

#77. It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. - Author: Henry Charles Carey

#78. Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older. - Author: Angela Lansbury

#79. It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway
in secret. - Author: Louise Erdrich

#80. The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. - Author: Theodore Roosevelt

#81. The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is. - Author: Kim Dotcom

#82. It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers. - Author: Marc Faber

#83. But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country. - Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

#84. I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do ... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. - Author: Drew Barrymore

#85. Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. - Author: Jared Diamond

#86. It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. - Author: John Sergeant Wise

#87. O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee. - Author: Ronald Knox

#88. I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb. - Author: Vint Cerf

#89. I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it. - Author: Lauryn Hill

#90. I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government. - Author: Irv Kupcinet

#91. People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise. - Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#92. By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry. - Author: Hermann Weyl

#93. I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus. - Author: Patrick Fabian

#94. But it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist. - Author: Charles Williams

#95. God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power. - Author: George Whitefield

#96. I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#97. In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. - Author: Lucy Powell

#98. No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#99. The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time. - Author: Lisa Gansky

#100. Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way. - Author: Leonard Ravenhill