Their Capacity Quotes
60 quotes by 56 authors
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
— John F. Kennedy
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.…
— John F. Kennedy
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Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within…
— John Chancellor
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,…
— Georges Bernanos
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When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the…
— Julia Ward Howe
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the…
— William O. Douglas
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Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to…
— Olympe de Gouges
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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to…
— Fredric Jameson
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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul…
— Paul Verlaine
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The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured,…
— Peter Senge
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
— Aldous Huxley
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I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown…
— John Rzeznik
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How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of…
— Peter Medawar
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In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -…
— David Easton
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
— Margaret Chan
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When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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