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• It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

  Sharon Stone

  People, Looks, Accepting

  "Sharon Stone's Beauty Secrets". Interview with Alexandra Parnass, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 29, 2008.

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• When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Warrior, Forgotten, Forgetful

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1995). “The Black Gryphon”, p.84, Penguin

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• I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Believe, Errors

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• I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

  Salvador Dali

  Teaching, Average, Giving

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, pp. 5-6, 1964.

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• I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

  Aaron Tippin

  Steel, Machines, Freak

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• I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Change, Summer, Character

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• I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

  Soseki Natsume

  Believe, Moving, Passion

  Natsume Soseki (2012). “Kokoro”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Mean, Peaceful

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• Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.

  Sonia Friedman

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.

  Sara Henderson

  Dream, Giving, Achieve

  Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.9, Pan

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• Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Fathering

  "Saints in the Stars" by Mary Mann, logger.believermag.com. August 8, 2014.

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• Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Giving, Community

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• It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

  John McCain

  Commitment, Impact, Iraq

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• Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Opportunity, Greatness, Life Is

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• I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

  Dick Cavett

  Stars, Believe, Reading

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Father, Real

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• True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

  Bernie Siegel

  Inspiration, May, Inspired

  Bernie S. Siegel (2009). “101 Exercises for the Soul: Simple Practices for a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.79, New World Library

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• Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Sick, Suffering

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• Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

  Marianne Williamson

  Miracle, Impossible, Assuming

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.31, Penguin

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• We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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• Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Love Is, Victory

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• It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.

  Nia Long

  Beautiful, Strong, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Thinking, Phrases

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Self, People, Intellectual

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not define itself as both a punishing and corporate state. This is not merely a matter of redefining sovereignty, but also rethinking what is distinctive about the social state, social responsibility, and the common good.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Government, Doe

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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