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• 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Genius, Statistics

  History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

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• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Taken, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

  Dee Hock

  Expansion, Information, Language

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• Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Support, World

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• Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

  Soledad O'Brien

  Cruelty, Inherent

  "Researcher: It's not bad apples, it's the barrel". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. May 21, 2004.

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• The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Honor, Promise, Important

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.7, Conari Press

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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Kindness, Caring

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

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• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Principles, Burning

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.62, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Ethos

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.170, Best Books on

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Brain, Transformation, Computer

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Society

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

  Socrates

  People, Wish, Might

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• If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

  Leo Strauss

  Wisdom, Men, Virtue

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

  Margaret Mead

  Peace, Two, Bathroom

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• America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

  David Riesman

  Humorous, America, Chinese

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

  Dee Hock

  Cells, Single Life, Information

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• I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

  Rene Cassin

  Century, Involvement, Active

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• There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

  Giovanni Papini

  Capacity To Love, Desire

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• The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

  William Trevor

  Thinking, Imagination, Understanding

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.144, Penguin

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• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Humble, Calumny

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.22

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