Quotes about Being capable (161 quotes)

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. Votes: 3

Andre Gide

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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death. Votes: 3

Mallory Ortberg

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Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. Votes: 3

Norman Vincent Peale

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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud. Votes: 3

John Ruskin

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There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly. Votes: 3

William James

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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. Votes: 3

Eugene H. Peterson

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[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset. Votes: 3

Gretl Braun

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Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is. Votes: 3

Bruce Lee

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Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others. Votes: 3

Tara Brach

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With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. Votes: 3

Rodney Brooks

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I am capable of being idle. Votes: 2

Alexander McCall Smith

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I know that human beings are capable of anything. Votes: 2

Ben Okri

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Votes: 2

Thomas Carlyle

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Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. Votes: 2

Henry Norris Russell

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Votes: 2

Joseph Addison

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. Votes: 2

Victor Hugo

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. Votes: 2

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. Votes: 2

Plato

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We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are. Votes: 2

Jeff Daniels

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Votes: 2

Thomas Carlyle

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I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. Votes: 2

Jeremy Grantham

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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Votes: 2

Margaret Atwood

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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! Votes: 2

Maurice Sendak

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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. Votes: 2

Henry David Thoreau

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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Votes: 2

Abraham Maslow

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Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. Votes: 2

Sun Myung Moon

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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything. Votes: 2

Sean Bean

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I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man. Votes: 2

Catherine Ashton

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Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness. Votes: 2

Joseph Lancaster

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. Votes: 2

Henri Poincare

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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending. Votes: 1

Donald Miller

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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. Votes: 1

Maria Montessori

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Nothing capable of being memorized is history. Votes: 0

Robin G. Collingwood

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We are all capable of being great dreamers. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own. Votes: 0

Leigh Bardugo

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Humans are vulnerable, because theyâre capable of being hurt. Votes: 0

Becca Fitzpatrick

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I will be all that I am capable of being. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Being evil is something that only humans are capable of. Votes: 0

Jane Goodall

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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others. Votes: 0

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. Votes: 0

Adam Smith

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One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. Votes: 0

Hayao Miyazaki

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being. Votes: 0

Lolly Daskal

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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. Votes: 0

Gene Wolfe

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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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A prayerful life, spiritual act of upholding all that you are capable of being. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog. I'm capable of a lot more. Votes: 0

Esai Morales

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We are all capable of being great dreamers. We must awaken the divinity within us. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. Votes: 0

Myles Munroe

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt Votes: 0

Veronica Roth

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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. Votes: 0

William Penn

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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas

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For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct. Votes: 0

Rose McIver

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A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. Votes: 0

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. Votes: 0

Jill Soloway

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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed. Votes: 0

Sarah Addison Allen

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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny. Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth. Votes: 0

Roderick Vincent

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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. Votes: 0

John Dufresne

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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression. Votes: 0

Luiz Bolognesi

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Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. Votes: 0

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing. Votes: 0

Ben Folds

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A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous Votes: 0

Frederick Pollock

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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way. Votes: 0

Romola Garai

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of. Votes: 0

Alix Kates Shulman

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Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven. Votes: 0

Ezra Levant

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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. Votes: 0

John Keats

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A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible. Votes: 0

Rita Zahara

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The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day. Votes: 0

Vaclav Havel

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I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done. Votes: 0

Fred Hollows

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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? Votes: 0

Josh Charles

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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . . Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive. Votes: 0

Assata Shakur

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I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding. Votes: 0

William Weld

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I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life? Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. Votes: 0

Rita Dove

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I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life. Votes: 0

Erin Willett

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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. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh

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people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice. Votes: 0

Robin Morgan

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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second. Votes: 0

Douglas Adams

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We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other. Votes: 0

Peter Berg

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. Votes: 0

Malcolm Forbes

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Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville! Votes: 0

Eric Ludy

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The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas. Votes: 0

J. P. Guilford

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A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as itâs not the work theyâre supposed to be doing. Votes: 0

K.J. Parker

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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will. Votes: 0

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason. Votes: 0

Ludwig Buchner

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Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain. Votes: 0

Sue Grafton

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Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary. Votes: 0

Richard John Neuhaus

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