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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.

  Nick Broomfield

  Believe, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.

  Rosa Montero

  Reality, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There is some rationale backing Kim Jong-un's actions, which are survival - survival for his regime, survival for his country. And he has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have, and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability. The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes and Ukraine giving up its nukes is, unfortunately, if you have nukes, never give them up.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.

  Leroy Chiao

  Country, Motivation, Military

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

  Li Ka-shing

  Inspirational, Business, Knowledge

  "Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony". Book by Bradley J. Preber (p. 81), May 9, 2014.

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• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Educational, Men, Adults

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Maturity, Missing, Wealth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.

  Sam Nunn

  Military, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Mean, Order

  "Madeleine Albright: Hillary's job not a party" by MJ Lee, www.politico.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Inspire, Survival

  "Buzz Aldrin on Why We Should Go to Mars". Interview with Amy Crawford, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Thinking, Screens

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• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Soul, May, Intellect

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

  John Bolton

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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• Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

  John O. Brennan

  Military, Borders, Arms

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.

  James Arthur

  Believe, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Implementing any major changes to the way companies operate requires time and determination and the shift to globally integrated innovation is no exception - it calls for new capabilities to be built, changes in the structure of the innovation organization, new systems, processes and mindsets. The scope and scale of this task shouldn't prevent executives from starting down the path of change as the systemic nature of innovation activities means that every single element of change that's brought about will make a difference.

  Yves Doz

  Determination, Mean, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real legislative mess, in the meanwhile various bad people are developing all sorts of tools to exploit the Internet for their own gain and the militaries are beginning to develop some extremely frightening offensive capabilities in cyber. Yet all of this is taking place outside of any international agreement or even framework.

  Misha Glenny

  Real, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Writing, Parent, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Thinking, New Experiences

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• Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Successful, Age, Trying

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• Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Optimistic, Creative

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.

  James Franklin Jeffrey

  Military, Thinking, Optimism

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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