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• It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Intelligent, Race, Space

  "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak, Introduction (p. ix), 1977.

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• Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

  Denis Waitley

  Self Esteem, Done, May

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Winning, Men, Soul

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.765, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Safety, Heartfelt

  "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

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• So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

  Marian Keyes

  Book, Shoes, People

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• Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Today, Philosopher

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fall, Frustration, Essence

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

  Richard Russo

  Judging, Ability, Extremes

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.296, Atlantic Books

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• The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

  Sean Covey

  Strong, Jobs, Opportunity

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• [Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Country, Motivation, Moving

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• The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Innovation, Different, Culture

  "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Strategy, Lost

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• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Way, Artistic, Fantastic

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• It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Training

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• I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

  Dick Cheney

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Skills, Marketing

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• Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Belief, Action

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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

  Marc Andreessen

  Crush, Real, Competition

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• When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

  Karl Marx

  Individuality, Labourers, Species

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

  Jimmy Carter

  Army, Caring, Doors

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

  Ali Larijani

  Thinking, France, Influence

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• He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

  Colin Powell

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

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• I think there are some mass destruction capabilities that are still inside Iraq. I think there's some weapons that have been shipped over the border to Syria. But I don't think we're going to find that their capabilities provided the imminent threat that many feared in this country. So I think it's going to be a tough search, but I think there's stuff there.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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