Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
— Diogenes
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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe…
— Ronald Reagan
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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living…
— James Lovelock
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The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
— Rigoberta Menchu
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Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no…
— Julia Cameron
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...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.
— Richard Goldman
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
— George Orwell
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How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
— Adi Shankara
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The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear... I'm…
— Brandon Boyd
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
— Bertrand Russell
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What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting…
— Joseph Goebbels
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method…
— Victor Francis Hess
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To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.
— Bryan Robson
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The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional…
— Franz Beckenbauer
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have…
— Mircea Eliade
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