Capacity Quotes
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.
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When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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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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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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Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides.
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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."
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World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.
