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• Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.

  William Bagley

  Real, School, Skills

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivational, Weed, Writing

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• Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Fiction, Levels, States

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• The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

  Maeve Binchy

  Important, Stories, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Mar 05, 2013

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• Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!

  Hugo Chavez

  Beautiful, Men, What Matters

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• As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Philosophical, Reading, Book

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• Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

  Mike Huckabee

  Smart, Intelligent, Libido

  "Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women ‘They Cannot Control Their Libido’ Without The Government" By Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Self Confidence, Pride

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Reality, Creating

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Grace, Mercy, Rage

  "The Man Who Had No Idea (The Vengeance of Hera)". Book by Thomas M. Disch, October 1978.

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• Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Thinking, Mind, Excellence

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• I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Want

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.30, A&C Black

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• I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

  John Gierach

  Dog, People, Enthusiasm

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• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Eggs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Opposites, Way, Groups

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• Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

  Dan B. Allender

  Heart, Humility, Loss

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.133, WaterBrook

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• My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

  Jean Nouvel

  Historical, Today, Technique

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• Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Half

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

  Jude Morgan

  Silly, Thinking, Silliness

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• It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Girl, Surprise, Surprise Me

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• Anyone who would argue that this third-generatio n MDX is an SUV might as well belong to the Flat Earth Society. The 2014 Acura MDX is the perfect expression of the modern car - capable, spacious, and friendly to drive.

  Michael Jordan

  Expression, Perfect, Car

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• I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.397

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• My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Business, Thinking, Artist

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• One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

  Bertolt Brecht

  People, World, Today

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• The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ideas, Degrees, Limits

  "The Physiology of Taste".

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