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• If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Teaching, Mean

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• It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.

  Smiley Blanton

  Fear, Long Ago, Unlimited

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• So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

  Linda Lavin

  Summer, New York, Drama

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• At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients.

  Mike McGavick

  Commitment, Unique, Risk

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• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Broken, Black, Vessel

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• There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

  James D. Watson

  Humanity, Intellectual, Heritage

  James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage

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• Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Mind, Information, Randomness

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

  Michael Bassey

  What Matters, Way, Left Behind

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• Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.

  Rickson Gracie

  Focus, Mind, Jiu Jitsu

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• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Practice, Wake Up

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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• Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

  Stephen Dillane

  Thinking, Joy, Melancholy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

  Idries Shah

  Art, Views, People

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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Endurance

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• In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.

  James Hansen

  Ocean, Views, Weather

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• Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate. I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls - the wish of being educated. We set up a foundation. We're giving full four-year scholarships to girls from villages that we see with potential.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Girl, Journey, Wish

  "Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

  Luis de Guindos

  Long, Spain, Debt

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• The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Leader, World, Achieve

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• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  Yishan Wong

  Mean, Community, News

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• We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

  Clarence Benjamin Jones

  Leadership, Character, Men

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Character, Acceptance, Men

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• No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Men, Stupidity

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