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• All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Perfect, Desire, World

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• There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

  Jim Rohn

  Mind, Body, Ready

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• When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fixing, Worst

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice

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• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Mind, Matter

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• When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

  Elena Kagan

  Meaningful, Air, Issues

  "Panel on Obama's Nomination of Elena Kagan to Replace Justice Stevens on Supreme Court". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2010.

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• We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Military, Pearls

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, May, Easier

  "Billy Graham’s grandson takes Christians to task". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. October 2, 2013.

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• If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

  Gregor Strasser

  World, Wealth, Economic

  "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

  George Orwell

  Party, Reality, Views

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• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Skills

  "Cheap-Shot Journalism" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 14, 2006.

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• The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

  Clive James

  Running, People, Television

  Clive James (2017). “Glued To The Box”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wisdom, Assuming, Assumption

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

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• We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

  Jean Vanier

  Crush, Light, Shining

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.16, Paulist Press

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• In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.

  Octavius Winslow

  Government, Law, Long

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• Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

  Leonard Read

  Creating, Wealth, Socialism

  "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.

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• One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

  James Randi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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• They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Matter, Trifling, Great Ones

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• Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as though they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them - all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.

  Muriel Barbery

  Inspiration, People, Giving

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

  William H. Wharton

  Insecure, Government, Self

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• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Stupidity, Intellectual

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

  Dennis Prager

  Earning It, People, Ungrateful

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• A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, Guilty, Logical

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• I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Reaching Up, Ideas

  "I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr".

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• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

  James Monroe

  Exercise, People, Ignorant

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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