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• Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

  Nicole Krauss

  Gone, Rooms, Youth

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Seems

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Believe, Only Child

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• Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Heart, Love Is, Risk

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

  Marissa Mayer

  New Beginnings, Thinking, May

  "Marissa Mayer Tells The Story Of Why She Became Yahoo CEO, Even Though She Was About To Have A Kid" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. March 29, 2013.

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• To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Thinking, Animal

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• All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Gratitude, Magic, Habit

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• Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Blood, World, Sin

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crime

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• Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

  Carl Jung

  Criticism, Harm, Built

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• Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

  Henry Tizard

  Fate, Pride, Science

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• Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Wise, Mean, Player

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• To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

  Vince Lombardi

  Brother, Passion, Heart

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

  Carl E. Olson

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Fields

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• I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

  Fred Hollows

  Wisdom, Done, Alive

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• The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

  Frederick Soddy

  Philosophy, Teaching, Science

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• Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

  Nick Bostrom

  Civilization, Firsts, Niche

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford

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• The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack.

  Peter Bergen

  Past, College, Men

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• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  Aristotle

  Ethics, Contemplation, Form

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• Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Men, Support

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, Government, Years

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