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“No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.” Plato, The Republic
“An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
“in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.” Linus Torvalds
“a man can but do his best.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realisation of the world in which we live.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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