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I felt limited in my ability to say what I thought, what I felt, what I believed.
One of the most remarkable things about "Crime and Punishment" is its ability to thrill despite the details of the central murder being revealed in the first act.
They also have the ability to put roots anywhere in the tree itself.
It was an ability to kind of walk up close to somebody and have a more private conversation, but it wasn't instant messaging because you had to sort of befriend somebody.
Its ability to illuminate continues to astonish us with new discoveries.
And this is how astronomers have managed to shepherd individual curiosity through its industrial age, preserving the individual ability to make discoveries but putting into place mega machinery to truly advance the frontier.
And when you put those two groups head to head, what you find is a quite significant, 40-percent deficit in the ability of the brain to make new memories without sleep.
Well, we can ask a very different question: What is it about the physiological quality of your sleep when you do get it that restores and enhances your memory and learning ability each and every day?
But I am just so really excited about the ability to bring something that I've seen only in science fiction for my entire life into reality.
We have three main goals: give all of us a language for talking about a subject that's quite awkward and uncomfortable to discuss; empower a whole front line, namely friends, to help; and, in the process, improve all of our ability to love better.
I'm completely convinced that while love is an instinct and an emotion, the ability to love better is a skill we can all build and improve on over time.
Purity's confidence to chase down lions and catch poachers, it didn't come from her athletic ability or even just her faith.
See, this type of experiment would act as a screen for bacteria that had adapted to their plastic-polluted environment and evolved the incredibly cool ability to eat PET plastic.
These are naturally occurring bacteria that have simply adapted to their plastic-polluted environment and evolved the incredibly gnarly ability to eat PET plastic.
And it's really quite amazing that these animals have this kind of intuitive ability to do these behaviors.
We find recently that the wily cuttlefish also has this ability, and in experiments last summer, when you present a cuttlefish with different foods at different times, they have to match that with where it was exactly and when was the last time they saw it.
But your ability to cope with it sure does.
So, this is part of the ability that we have, to try to stretch our imagination, in terms of what we may find in the future.
And so I never developed the ability to have a staff.
We all know, and there's been several allusions to it, that we are failing in our ability to produce enough scientists, engineers and technicians.
And so, in effect, you could see perhaps a tenfold increase in the ability to get around as far as speed is concerned.
As for the corollary group, its size was simply zero forever until the Cold War, when suddenly, the leaders of two global alliances attained the ability to blow up the world.
They saw this actually solving a problem: this ability to differentiate components but keep them synthetic.
An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
Now, dogs have an incredible sense of smell, but there's something a little bit more special about them, they have an ability to learn.
Some people have a better musical ability and ability to appreciate music than others have.
We have no reason to believe that within this much, much larger space there would not also be extremely worthwhile modes of being, perhaps ones that would be way beyond our wildest ability even to imagine or dream about.
What I mean is this ability that each of us has to be something greater than herself or himself; to arise out of our ordinary selves and achieve something that at the beginning we thought perhaps we were not capable of.
There are also some neat possibilities for education, like language, math and logic games where we want to give people the ability to try things quickly, and view the results immediately.
After awakening from a coma he went into during the Second World War, Nakata loses the ability to read and write– but gains a mysterious knack for talking to cats.
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