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• The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Men, Mind

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• Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, People, Twenties

  Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

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• Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Desire, Members

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.51, HarperCollins Leadership

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• People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

  Natalie Portman

  Heart, People, Trivia

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• A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Children, Real, Men

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• The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Evil, Safe

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• Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Journey, Challenges, Essentials

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• [God] is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.

  Erastus Snow

  Blessing, Long Ago, People

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• Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

  E. B. White

  Mind, Stories, Mystery

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Everybody who really does what he is capable of, is a hero

  Mats Hummels

  Hero, Doe

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• I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

  Lisa Shannon

  Dad, Helping Others, Thinking

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• I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Understanding, May

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• The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Opening Up, Frontiers

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• I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

  Robert Winston

  Mistake, Humble, Thinking

  "Is there any place for religious faith in science?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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• You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Class, Unhappy, Firsts

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• So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Community, Looks

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• Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Promise, Edinburgh, Done

  "7 Quotes From Shah Rukh Khan's Speech at Edinburgh That Will Give You Life" by Akshita Jolly, www.cosmopolitan.in. August 2, 2017.

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Ships

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Knowing, Desire

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.34, Hay House, Inc

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• Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

  Brian Stableford

  Dream, Might

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• The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

  John Wooden

  Tasks, Becoming, Achieve

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Becoming, Trouble

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.89, Revell

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• I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

  Pablo Picasso

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