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• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  Bryan Adams

  Rip, Inspiration, Rights

  FaceBook post by Bryan Adams from Dec 06, 2013

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Dance

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• Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Stories, Might

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• The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

  Arthur Helps

  Greatness, Men, Quality

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• ...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Men, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Fruit

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

  Alan Keyes

  Opportunity, People, Judging

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• Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Writing, Mind

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• Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Addiction, Moral

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• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Blood, Christ On The Cross, Roots

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Intellectual, Skins

  At the Gridiron Club dinner; quoted in National Review (16 April 2001).

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• Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

  Peter Senge

  Information Sharing, Creating, Information Knowledge

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Depth

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• Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

  Augusto Boal

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity, and meaning. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Full Potential

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Assessment, Self, Growing

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• You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

  Kofi Annan

  Doubt, Triumph, Should

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Joy, Culture

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• The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

  Shawn Achor

  Glasses, Water, Important

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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Laughing, Tragedy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Limits, Sticks, Ifs

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• Yoga is your mind control capacity.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Mind, Mind Control

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• Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mistake, Doe, Holiness

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• The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

  George Washington

  Pride, Names, Patriotism

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.5

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