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• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Attributes, Variety

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• Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Leader, Troops

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• Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Goal

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

  Jack Abramoff

  Findings, Knows, Series

  "Jack Abramoff Does Not Know How He Will Pay Back $44 Million, Will Not Go On ‘Dancing With The Stars’". Interview with Arin Greenwood, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Nonsense, Wells

  1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

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• If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Believe, Heart

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Patterns, Way, Firsts

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.12, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Shocked

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Needs, Messages, Prioritize

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• If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Office, Realizing, Pope

  "Pope says in book he would resign if incapacitated". www.reuters.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

  Tony Blair

  Journey, Government, Leaving

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• People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

  David Bohm

  People, Development, Common

  David Bohm (2006). “Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm”, p.175, Routledge

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• Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.

  Leonard Boswell

  Military, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

  James Cameron

  Population, Pay, Highest

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• Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

  Kris Carr

  Thinking, People, Magic

  "How to Do Less and Live More" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love, Forgiveness, Two

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• Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Literature, Virtue

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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, Intelligent, Enemy

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• One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Laughing, Proud, One Thing

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• A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

  Guy Debord

  Hype, Deceit, World

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Laughter, Unique

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

  Rita Dove

  Voice, Utterance, Realizing

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• If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sympathy, Men, Foundation

  "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 1, 1912.

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