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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Themes and Variations (1950).
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