Capable Quotes - Page 24

• How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

  George W. Bush

  Smart, Yield, Growth

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Responsibility, Moral, Humans

  Source: inters.org

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• If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Years, People

  Source: inters.org

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• All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, School, Thinking

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Looks, Earth, Realizing

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Eggs, Two

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

  Origen

  Spiritual, Understanding, Mind

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Korea, States

  Source: chomsky.info

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• We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Problem, Problem Solving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

  Newt Gingrich

  Alliances, Nato

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I know who I am, I know what I am capable of, I know who I trust.

  Mariano Rivera

  Who I Am, Knows

  Source: gotham-magazine.com

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• I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

  Philip Glass

  Thinking, Years, Radical Change

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Age, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creating, People, Violence

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.

  William J. Duiker

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tea, Teeth, Mindfulness

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

  Peter Berg

  Sarcastic, Violent, Checks

  Source: ew.com

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• [Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

  David Brooks

  Block, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.

  Mitt Romney

  Nuclear Iran, America, Weapons

  Source: genius.com

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• There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Reason Why, Should

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012

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• When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Sacrifice, Example, Able

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• When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part of assistance to the animal kingdom one is brought to your own awareness of what you are capable of firstly even before you're given access to what goes on here. When the dimensions work here there are no issues or fears, just full awareness in each moment of who we really are and what it is we are currently busy assisting with, therefore I have a lot still to learn.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Animal, Issues, Goes On

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• When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

  Jordan Peele

  Beautiful, People, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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