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• Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Trying, Comfort, Steps

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• We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Language, Surrender

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• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Lifetime, Economy

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

  Peter Drucker

  Definitions, Resources, Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.11, Routledge

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• And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love You, Love Is, Giving Love

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• On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Falling In Love, Swimming

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• You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Heart, Failing, Knows

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• The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all need the cleansing that comes through applying the full effects of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Past, Eight

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• Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.

  John Stuart Mill

  Practice, Civilization, People

  Sir John Bowring, John Stuart Mill (1836). “The London and Westminster Review”, p.5

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Justice

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• You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.

  Bobb Biehl

  Years, Next Year, Able

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Becoming

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Follow Through

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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Morning, Animal

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.412, e-artnow

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• The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

  Mark Twain

  Silly, Mean, Men

  Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

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• At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Reality, Mind, Periods

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• And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.

  Les Standiford

  Thinking, Practice, Energy

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• Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Realization, Wonderful, Whatever Happens

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Asante Salaam, Barbara Bash (2010). “Perseverance”, p.117, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Organization, Energy, Needs

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• Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

  John McCain

  Real, Kids, Technology

  "Unbelieveable: Debate Moderator Smears Republicans". www.newsbusters.org. December 15, 2007.

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• Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

  Martin Buber

  Attitude, Men

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• We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Events, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• ... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, People, Madness

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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