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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

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• I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Trying
  • Say
  • Capable

• Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • My Life
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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Consent

• Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Really
  • Everyone
  • Capable

• It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Matter

• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Conditions
  • Capable

• Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Taken
  • Silence

• When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Alive
  • Capable

• The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Master

• He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

  

  Aristotle
  • First
  • Ruled
  • Good Ruler

• We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Evidence

• All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Capable
  • Warmth

• I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Matter
  • I Think
  • Capable

• Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enough
  • Holiday
  • Consent

• I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Capable
  • Sitting
  • Bench

• I have known Tom for many years. I know him to be a highly qualified and capable individual who will serve the Robinson organization extremely well in the years to come.

  

  John Moyer Disturbed
  • Individual
  • Capable
  • Known

• Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • TV
  • Ruled

• There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Crime
  • Capable
  • Deem

• The summer,' Randy explained. 'I'm going to appreciate it. I'm going to walk in the woods noticing everything, and ride my bike on all the roads I never explored. I'm going to fill a pillow with ladies' tobacco so I can smell it in January and remember about August. I'm going to dry a big bunch of pennyroyal so I can break pieces off all winter and think of summer. I'm going to look at everything, and smell everything, and listen to everything so I'll never forget.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Remember
  • Appreciate
  • Roads

• Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Passion
  • Feelings
  • Tradition

• By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

  

  Tacitus
  • Capable
  • Consent
  • Ruled