Quotes with capable

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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ashley Montagu The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Keats The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Norman Cousins The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Armstrong Williams The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Assata Shakur The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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