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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Eye, Thinking

  "The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. December 2011.

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• All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Humanity, Obedience

  John Stuart Mill (1875). “On Liberty”, p.36

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Class, Unhappy, Firsts

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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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• Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Simple, Car, Understanding

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• The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.

  George Reisman

  Kings, Past, Average

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• Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

  Morgan Philpot

  Government, Numbers, Wealth

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