Capacity Quotes
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Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.
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Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.
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The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.
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We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
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You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.
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I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
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There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
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I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.
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Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
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I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
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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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Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.
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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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We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
