Capacity Quotes - Page 17

• Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

  Peter Singer

  Challenges, Rebel, Genuine

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cheating, Religious, Hypocrisy

  "Viggo Mortensen blasts President Bush" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. December 14, 2005.

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• We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Cruelty, Extremes, Humans

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• When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Culture, Serious, Shows

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• Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Spring, Real

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• The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Leader, Political

  "Obama: U.S. to withdraw most Iraq troops by August 2010", www.cnn.com. February 27, 2009.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Responsibility, Ethics

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• I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.

  Griffith John

  Heart, Divine Wisdom, Long

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen) we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained: the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations.... May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

  Thomas Merton

  Simple, Reality, Silence

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• The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Justice, Temptation

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• 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. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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

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• But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

  John W. Snow

  Strong, Gdp, Numbers

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• There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

  William Bourke Cockran

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a superior position. When we help, we feel that we are one step ahead or one step higher than the ones that we are helping. But if we serve someone, then we offer our capacity with humility, on the strength of our loving concern and oneness. So let us use the proper term, 'service'.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Humility, Oneness

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• There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Encyclopedia Britannica, Three

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

  Thomas Merton

  Positive, Love Is, Law Of Attraction

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

  Rowan Williams

  Long, Liberty, Essentials

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• To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.

  Rudy Vallee

  Success, Kings, Philosophy

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• Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

  Pablo Picasso

  Power, Sacred, Able

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• You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

  Dan Geer

  Privacy, Ifs

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• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  Ehud Olmert

  Couple, Mean, Fire

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• Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).

  John Climacus

  Christian, Talking, Mad

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.129, Paulist Press

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