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Ability Quotes - Page 2

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.