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• Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

  Mardy Grothe

  Feet, People, Shooting

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• No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Reason, Democratic

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.353, Vintage

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• The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

  Laozi

  Evil, Giving, Saint

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Parent, Doe

  FaceBook post by John Rosemond from Apr 30, 2016

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• Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Agreement, Differences, Numbers

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• Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he's a winner. He doesn't need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his ego. He knows he'll win more, and go further, with associates who not only can keep up with him but who also are capable of teaching him something.

  Harvey Mackay

  Teaching, Winning, Men

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

  Tom Verlaine

  Vices, Negative, Television

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• We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.483, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Evil, Repentance

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• When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

  John Wooden

  Mirrors, Looks, Outcomes

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Two, Uniting, Lasts

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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.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Being There, Moments

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• It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  People, Brands, Fairs

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• Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Intellectual, Passionate

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• I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing.

  Dan Harmon

  Dog, Home, Writing

  "Dan Harmon Talks HARMONTOWN, Touring, the Writing Process, RICK AND MORTY, COMMUNITY Season 6, and More". Interview with Evan Dickson, collider.com. October 2, 2014.

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

  Jill Soloway

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Light, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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

  Rose McIver

  Able, Direct, Known

  "Rose McIver Talks BRIGHTEST STAR, Acting in All Mediums, Working on MASTERS OF SEX, ONCE UPON A TIME, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 2, 2014.

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• It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

  J.H. Wyman

  Art, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.

  AraabMuzik

  Artist, Machines, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Men, Insult, Infamy

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• Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

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