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• The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.

  David Frum

  Party, People, Belief

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a Republican, but if I had my choice of running or having Obama - or somebody, but Obama, even Barack Obama - be a great president, the greatest president ever, I'd be so happy for the country. He doesn't have the capability to be a great president, and the world is laughing. We're like a joke. As a country, we're becoming like a joke. Everybody is ripping us off.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Running, Laughing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Opportunity, Needs, Talent

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Class, People, Priorities

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Past, Iphone

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• Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Government, Law, Dawn

  "NSA's phone snooping a different kind of creepy" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.

  Colin Powell

  Regret, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Father, Believe

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.390, Penguin

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• Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Intelligent, Numbers

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2105, Penguin

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• Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.

  John Stuart Mill

  Knowing, Degrees, Faults

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• There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

  Ben Stein

  Average, Years, Numbers

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• I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you try to avoid that at all costs. Sometimes it's unavoidable. That's the lesson of World War II. I think the other lesson of the last 50 or 60 years, however, is that, the stronger the U.S. military, the stronger our defense capabilities, the stronger the chances for peace are.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. October 21, 2012.

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• It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can now reach them and make them harder to defend, such as anti-ship missiles, combined with space based tracking. The bigger issue, though, is who are gaining those capabilities. With what's going on with China and Russia, we are returning to geopolitical state-by-state competition. The Navy has not had to fight a peer for control of the sea since the Battle of Midway 75 years ago.

  P. W. Singer

  War, Fighting, Technology

  "Trump's Military Ignorance Steams Full Speed Ahead". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. May 15, 2017.

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• I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Unique, America

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Address to the Nation on Libya, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

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• The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

  Steven Pinker

  Iran, Iraq, Lesson Learned

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• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Mind, Matter

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• Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Courage, Perfect

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 216, 1665.

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Doe, Noble

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Media, Creating

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• The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Cutting, Needs, Limits

  "Iain Duncan Smith: Why he should look at himself before complaining about people living off the state" by Susie Boniface, www.mirror.co.uk. April 2, 2013.

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• We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful, if assessed from the perspective of military capabilities.

  Richard A. Falk

  Powerful, Military, Perspective

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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