Capacity Quotes
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They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
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Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.
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Our borrowing capacity has been completely exhausted. We have no more assets to pledge.
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The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.
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For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith
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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
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Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
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Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.
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I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
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The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
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Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.
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The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
