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• Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

  Henry Fielding

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means...the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger

  Nasser El Sonbaty

  Strength, Mean, Training

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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

  Geoff Gaberino

  Motivational, Success, Real

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• We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Change, Diversity, Growing

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• How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

  Robert Breault

  Confidence, Tasks, Persons

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• The experience curve says that your costs should probably decline by 15% or 20% with every doubling in your experience making a product, approximately how many of them you turn out. It also says that if you have the biggest market share, meaning the most experience of anybody in your competitive set, you should have the lowest costs, and the resultant capability to underprice your competitors, maybe forever. The abiding lesson of the experience curve is that companies need to discipline themselves to keep reducing their costs, year in, year out, if they are to remain competitive.

  Walter Kiechel

  Discipline, Forever, Share

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mean, Years, Chinese

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

  John Dunning

  Challenges, Inspire, Benefits

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• Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Responsibility, Age, Feels

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• Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Lazy, Looks, Use

  Source: fpmt.org

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• The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

  Jamie Dimon

  Technology, Arrows, Japan

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Way, Apollo

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• Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

  August Strindberg

  Powerful, Struggle, People

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• Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Mean, Energy, Recognition

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• The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

  Mae Brussell

  Circles, Lakes, Israel

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

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• When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Winning, Play, Names

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well.
  
  Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, Creating

  "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mean, Mind, Measurement

  "Schrödinger: Life and Thought". Book by Walter Moore, 1989.

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• Armenia categorically rejects the resumption of military hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh as an option. In case Azerbaijan resorts to military aggression, Armenia will have no other choice but to recognize the Nagorno Karabakh Republic de jure and to employ all its capabilities to ensure the security of the people of Artsakh.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Military, Azerbaijan, People

  Remarks by The President of the Republic of Armenia H.E. Serzh Sargsyan at the OSCE Meeting of the Heads of State or Government (Summit), www.president.am. December 02, 2010.

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• One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.

  Herbert Schiller

  Order, World, Growing

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own.  Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Baby, Fun, Smart

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• I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

  Heather Bresch

  Sex, Believe, Ambition

  "West Virginia's Leading Lady: A Q&A with Heather Bresch". Interview with Jennifer Jett, www.wvexecutive.com. February 25, 2014.

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• As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

  Andy Behrman

  Attitude, People, Get Better

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• Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

  Mason Cooley

  Tests, Perversion, Survived

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